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Fort Lauderdale is in southeastern Florida on the Atlantic coast, about 25 miles north of downtown Miami in the United States. Known as the "Venice of America", Fort Lauderdale has a 165-mile (266-kilometer) network of navigable waterways. Situated on Florida's southeast coast it is a popular beach resort catering for a large yachting fraternity, as well as a plethora of other water sports. Seminole Indians originally lived here, but were suppressed in the early 1800's by a Major William Lauderdale and for a century the area survived on its agriculture and citrus groves, before re-inventing itself in the 1950s as a seaside resort.

Fort Lauderdale City Facts
Fort LauderdalePopulation - 164,600 (Source: UN Population Estimate Revision 2003)USAPopulation - 300,038,000 (Source: UN Population Estimate Revision2003)Currency - US Dollar ($) = 100 centsTime Zone - GMT - 5 hoursLanguage - English