Broward County, Florida, USA
County or equivalent
Location overview
Broward County lies in Florida, linking established communities with the surrounding rural and suburban landscape. Fort Lauderdale is the county seat in a densely settled corridor between the Atlantic Ocean and the Everglades. The area’s development reflects how Indigenous history, rail expansion, agriculture and twentieth-century migration shaped the peninsula before modern highways linked it to nearby population centers. Tourism, health care, trade, construction, agriculture and services anchor the economy. The surrounding landscape remains part of Broward County’s everyday identity.