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U.S News & World Report 2018rankings Florida's economy ranks among the largest in the world as of 2018 the gross state product (GSP) is about $1.0 trillion the fourth largest economy in the United States Florida is responsible for 5.0 percent of the United States' approximate $20.9 trillion gross domestic product (GDP) as of 2018 Florida's nominal GDP is larger than all but 15 countries in terms of Purchasing Power Parity it is larger than all but 24 countries in the 20th century tourism industry construction international banking biomedical and life sciences healthcare research simulation training aerospace and defense and commercial space travel have contributed to the state's economic development. ; . 2010 Census Miami Miami-Dade County Florida The Downtown Miami Historic District is the city's largest historic district with buildings ranging from 1896 to 1939 in the heart of Downtown. Actor 1 Music history Florida is host to many types of wildlife including:. . Monsignor William Barry Memorial Library Brightstar Corporation Burger King Intradeco Holdings Latin Flavors Norwegian Cruise Line and Ryder have their headquarters in unincorporated areas in the county Centurion Air Cargo Florida West International Airways IBC Airways and World Atlantic Airlines have their headquarters on the grounds of Miami International Airport in an unincorporated area in the county. 2.1 Limestone and aquifers The Everglades is a natural region of tropical wetlands in the southern portion of the U.S state of Florida comprising the southern half of a large drainage basin within the neotropic ecozone the ecosystem it forms is not presently found anywhere else on earth the system begins near Orlando with the Kissimmee River which discharges into the vast but shallow Lake Okeechobee Water leaving the lake in the wet season forms a slow-moving river 60 miles (97 km) wide and over 100 miles (160 km) long flowing southward across a limestone shelf to Florida Bay at the southern end of the state the Everglades experience a wide range of weather patterns from frequent flooding in the wet season to drought in the dry season the Seminole Tribe gave the large body of water the name Okeechobee meaning "River of Grass" to describe the sawgrass marshes part of a complex system of interdependent ecosystems that include cypress swamps the estuarine mangrove forests of the Ten Thousand Islands tropical hardwood hammocks pine rockland and the marine environment of Florida Bay Throughout the 20th century the Everglades suffered significant loss of habitat and environmental degradation, Launch of Space Shuttle Columbia from the Kennedy Space Center.

1960 1,497,099 115.8% 2.1 Electronic dance music Architecture 6.2 Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards 3 Wildlife and preservation 6.1.1 Major freeways and tollways A new international arrivals facility opened in August 2012 and the project reached substantial completion in January 2013 All of the twelve international gates which were designed by the Harper Partners Team of architects were the first to be fully operational and generating revenue for the Miami Dade Aviation Department.The Baggage Handling System's international-to-domestic transfer which was the last component of the project was completed in February 2014; ; An elevated ridge rising to an average height of about 1,900 fathoms [3,500 m; 11,400 ft] below the surface traverses the basins of the North and South Atlantic in a meridianal direction from Cape Farewell probably its far south at least as Gough Island following roughly the outlines of the coasts of the Old and the New Worlds. While the railroad's extension to Miami remained unannounced in the spring of 1895 rumors of this possibility continued to multiply fueling real estate activity in the Biscayne Bay area the news of the railroad's extension was officially announced on June 21 1895 in late September the work on the railroad began and settlers began pouring into the promised "freeze proof" lands on October 24 1895 the contract agreed upon by Flagler and Tuttle was approved, To conduct business overseas multinational companies need to bridge separate national markets into one global marketplace There are two macro-scale factors that underline the trend of greater globalization the first consists of eliminating barriers to make cross-border trade easier (e.g free flow of goods and services and capital referred to as "free trade") the second is technological change particularly developments in communication information processing and transportation technologies, See also: Frost Art Museum and Wolfsonian-FIU. . . .