Miami, Florida

 

Miami (/maɪˈæmi/), formally the City of Miami, is a coastal town positioned in Miami-Dade County in southeastern Florida (United States). With a populace of 442,241 as of the 2020 census, it is the second-most populous town in Florida, eleventh-most populous town in the Southeast, and 44th-most populous town in the United States. Miami is the core of the nation's eighth-largest metropolitan location with 6,138,333 people The town has the third-largest skyline in the U.S. with over 300 high-rises, fifty eight of which exceed 491 feet (150 m).

Miami is a foremost middle and chief in finance, commerce, culture, arts, and worldwide trade. The metro place is with the aid of some distance the greatest urban financial system in Florida and the twelfth biggest in the United States, with a GDP of $344.9 billion as of 2017. In 2020, Miami was once labeled as a Beta + degree international metropolis through the GaWC. In 2019, Miami ranked seventh in the United States and thirty first amongst international cities in commercial enterprise activity, human capital, statistics exchange, cultural experience, and political engagement. 

According to a 2018 UBS find out about of seventy seven world cities, the metropolis was once ranked as the third-richest in the world and the second-richest in the United States in buying power. Miami is one of the biggest majority-minority cities in the United States and the fourth-largest majority-Hispanic metropolis in the United States, with 70.2% of its populace being Hispanic in 2020.

Greater Downtown Miami has one of the biggest concentrations of global banks in the United States, and is domestic to many massive countrywide and worldwide companies. The Health District, domestic to Jackson Memorial Hospital and the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami and others, is a fundamental core for hospitals, clinics, and the biotechnology and scientific lookup industries. Port of Miami is the busiest cruise port in the world in each passenger site visitors and cruise lines, and refers to itself as the "Cruise Capital of the World". Miami is additionally a most important tourism hub for global visitors, rating 2d in the us of a after New York City. Miami has been known as the Gateway to Latin America.