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Fort Lauderdale

City in southeastern coastal Florida, USA, 40 km/25 mi north of Miami, where the New River enters the Atlantic Ocean; seat of Broward County; population (2000) 152,400. The city's main industry is tourism. A network of inlets and canals used for boating cross the city; Atlantic Ocean beaches line it on the east; and a deep-water port to the south, Port Everglades, allows ocean-going vessels to dock.

A fort was built here in 1837 during the Seminole War, and the city was incorporated in 1911. The city is connected to Miami by a virtually continuous coastal resort development. It is a measure of the rapid expansion of the state's tourist industry that Fort Lauderdale, which had a population of 30,000 in 1948, had over 150,000 inhabitants by 1974.

It is the seat of Fort Lauderdale College (1940) and Nova University (1964).



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