Biscayne National Park - a national park in Florida having underwater coral reefs and marine life

Everglades National Park - a national park in Florida containing an immense subtropical wilderness with mangrove swamps and rare birds and wild animals

American state - one of the 50 states of the United States

Gulf States - a region of the United States comprising states bordering the Gulf of Mexico; Alabama and Florida and Louisiana and Mississippi and Texas

Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, Dixie, Dixieland, South - the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

Daytona Beach - a resort town in northeast Florida on the Atlantic coast; hard white beaches have been used for automobile speed trials

Fort Lauderdale - a city in southeast Florida on the Atlantic coast north of Miami; a favorite place for college students to go on their spring vacations

Fort Myers - a town in southwest Florida

Gainesville - a university town in north central Florida

Jacksonville - Florida's largest city; a port and important commercial center in northeastern Florida

Key West - a town on the westernmost of the Florida keys in the Gulf of Mexico

Melbourne - a resort town in east central Florida

Miami - a city and resort in southeastern Florida on Biscayne Bay; the best known city in Florida; a haven for retirees and a refuge for Cubans fleeing Castro

Miami Beach - a city in southeastern Florida on an island between Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean; known for fashionable resort hotels

Orlando - a city in central Florida; site of Walt Disney World

Palm Beach - a resort town in southeast Florida on an island on the Atlantic coast

Panama City - a resort and fishing town on the Gulf of Mexico in northwest Florida

Pensacola - a town in extreme northwest Florida

Sarasota - a town in west central Florida on the Gulf of Mexico

Saint Augustine, St. Augustine - a resort city in northeastern Florida; the oldest city in the United States

Saint Petersburg, St. Petersburg - a city in western Florida on Tampa Bay; a popular winter resort

capital of Florida, Tallahassee - capital of the state of Florida; located in northern Florida

Tampa - a resort city in western Florida; located on Tampa Bay on the Gulf of Mexico

West Palm Beach - a town in southeast Florida on the mainland opposite Palm Beach; founded as a commercial center for Palm Beach

Apalachicola, Apalachicola River - a river in northwestern Florida formed by the confluence of the Chattahoochee River and the Flint River at the Florida border

Biscayne Bay - a narrow bay formed by an inlet from the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Florida

Cape Canaveral, Cape Kennedy - a sandy promontory (formerly Cape Kennedy) extending into the Atlantic Ocean from a barrier island off the eastern coast of Florida; the site of a NASA center for spaceflight

Everglades - a large subtropical swamp in southern Florida that is noted for its wildlife

cay, Florida keys, key - a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida

Lake Okeechobee, Okeechobee - a lake in southeast Florida north of the Everglades

Okefenokee Swamp - a large swampy area of northeast Florida and southeast Georgia

Saint Johns, Saint Johns River, St. Johns, St. Johns River - a river in northeastern Florida that flows northward to Jacksonville and then eastward to empty into the Atlantic Ocean

Tampa Bay - an arm of the Gulf of Mexico in west central Florida