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Jacksonville in Florida

13 September 2021 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General Reading Time: 12 minutes

Riverside and Avondale © Ebyabe/cc-by-sa-3.0

Jacksonville is the most populous city in Florida, and is the largest city by area in the contiguous United States as of 2020. It is the seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968. Consolidation gave Jacksonville its great size and placed most of its metropolitan population within the city limits. As of 2020, Jacksonville’s population is 949,611, making it the 12th most populous city in the U.S., the most populous city in the Southeast, and the most populous city in the South outside of the state of Texas. The Jacksonville metropolitan area has a population of 1,523,615 and is the fourth largest metropolitan area in Florida. read more…

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The Sea Islands along the coast of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida

24 April 2015 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General Reading Time: 9 minutes

Terns on Cape Island. 1827 lighthouse (left) and an 1857 lighthouse (right) in the background © Billy Shaw/USFWS

The Sea Islands are a chain of tidal and barrier islands on the Southeastern Atlantic Ocean coast of the United States. Numbering over 100, they are located between the mouths of the Santee and St. Johns Rivers along the coast of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Settled by indigenous cultures over thousands of years, the islands were selected by Spanish colonists as sites for founding of colonial missions. read more…