Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA

Miami is a community in Miami-Dade County, Florida, set within Florida’s low coastal plain, subtropical waterways and fast-growing metropolitan regions. Miami rises between Biscayne Bay and the Everglades as a major cultural and commercial gateway to Latin America and the Caribbean. Indigenous history, rail expansion, agriculture and twentieth-century migration shaped the peninsula, and later roads broadened the community’s ties to the region. Tourism, health care, trade, construction, agriculture and services anchor the economy. Cultural institutions and recreation add depth to the local landscape.