Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida, USA

Fort Lauderdale is a community in Broward County, Florida, set within Florida’s low coastal plain, subtropical waterways and fast-growing metropolitan regions. Fort Lauderdale is built around the New River and an extensive canal system, giving the Atlantic city a strong boating identity. The community’s older landscape still reflects an era when Indigenous history, rail expansion, agriculture and twentieth-century migration shaped the peninsula. Tourism, health care, trade, construction, agriculture and services anchor the economy. Local traditions and access to the outdoors add another dimension to life in Fort Lauderdale.