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Florida City is a city in Miami-Dade County and the southernmost municipality in the South Florida metropolitan area — it is the southernmost city in the United States that is not on an island, and the last stop on the mainland before the Florida Keys.

The city began as a land promotion called 'Detroit,' promoted by the Miami Land and Development Company, and when the first thirty families arrived in 1910 there were no buildings at all, so they had to stay in Homestead while their houses were built.

The town incorporated on December 29, 1914, and took the name Florida City at incorporation — a change its original promoter fought all the way to the Florida Supreme Court, and lost.

Florida City's motto is 'Gateway to the Florida Keys and the Everglades,' and it serves as the mainland entrance both to the Keys via U.S. 1 and to the main section of Everglades National Park, whose park road ends at Flamingo on Florida Bay.

Florida City is the southern terminus of the Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike, where the toll road meets U.S. 1.

Hurricane Andrew devastated Florida City in 1992, demolishing more than 120 homes, damaging some 700 others, and damaging City Hall beyond repair.

The 2020 census counted 13,085 people in Florida City, up from 11,245 in 2010, and the Census Bureau estimated its population at 13,576 by 2025.

Florida City has about 4,081 households averaging 3.17 persons each, and beyond its suburbs it remains a major agricultural area at the edge of the Everglades.