Seaports I-195.svg Interstate 195 / Toll Florida 112.svg State Road 112 (Airport Expressway), South Florida (colloquially and locally known as SoFlo) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises Florida's southernmost counties including Miami-Dade Broward and Palm Beach It is the fourth most populous urban agglomeration in the United States It is one of Florida's three most common "directional" regions the others being Central Florida and North Florida it includes the populous Miami metropolitan area the Everglades and the Florida Keys South Florida is the only part of the continental United States with a tropical climate. 21% 2 Twentieth century The Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association was formed in 1988 as an expansion team They have won three league championships (in 2006 2012 and 2013) and five conference titles. .
. . Downtown Miami Historic District Temple Israel of Greater Miami (1926) Miami college sports teams See also: Florida International University Alumni Association; Miami Florida Business directory, Over time there have been numerous proposals for partitioning the state of Florida to form a separate state of South Florida Such proposals have usually been made as political statement rather than serious attempts at secession Reasons often stated are cultural ethnic economic and financial frustrations with the state government in Tallahassee which is in North Florida. .
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