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WELCOME TO Florida (USA)

Florida Beach and Waterway Facts

• - Wherever you go in Florida, you're never more than 60 miles (100 km) from the beach.
• - Sand beaches, a Florida signature, account for 1,100 miles (1,770 km) of the state's 1,800 miles (2,898 km) of coastline.
• - Florida has more than 8,460 miles (13,620 km) of tidal shoreline, second only to Alaska in that category.
• - Florida beaches are home to 80 percent of loggerhead turtles in the United States.
• - In May 2002, St. Joseph Peninsula State Park in Northwest Florida's Port St. Joe was rated the No. 1 beach in America by Dr. Stephen Leatherman, a professor at Florida International University, known to the world as "Dr. Beach."
• - Sanibel Island is one of the 10 best beaches in the world for shelling, with more than 400 species.
• - Florida is the home to six underwater preserves: the Wreck of the Half Moon, Urca de Lima, San Pedro, The City of Hawkinsville, USS Massachusetts, SS Copenhagen and SS Tarpon.
• - The coral reef found in Key West is the third largest in the world, and the largest in North America.
• - Florida has nearly 8,000 lakes of 10 or more acres in size.
• - The Saint Johns River in northeast Florida is one of the few rivers in the world that flows north instead of south.
• - The world's deepest freshwater spring is Wakulla Springs near Tallahassee.
• - The city of Lakeland in Polk County was named so because there are 19 lakes within city limits.
• - There are more than 800 Florida Keys, stretching more than 180 miles! Key Largo is the longest key at 30 miles long and a half-mile wide.
• - DeFuniak Springs is home to one of the two naturally round lakes in the world, Lake DeFuniak.