Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida, USA

Tampa is a community in Hillsborough County, Florida, set within Florida’s low coastal plain, subtropical waterways and fast-growing metropolitan regions. Tampa occupies the head of Tampa Bay, where a major port, Ybor City’s cigar heritage and Gulf Coast culture converge. 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. Local traditions and access to the outdoors add another dimension to life in Tampa.