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Florida is a state located in the Southeastern United States. It borders Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the north. Much of the state's land mass is a large peninsula with the Gulf of Mexico to the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Florida Straits and Caribbean to the south.
Florida was admitted as the 27th U.S. state in 1845, after a three hundred year period of European rule.

Florida is nicknamed the "Sunshine State" because of its generally warm climate.