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West Palm Beach| Town, coastal resort, and administrative headquarters of Palm Beach County, southeast Florida, USA; population (2000) 82,100. It is situated on the lagoon, Lake Worth, and the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. Industries include transistors, aircraft parts, computers, building materials, and citrus fruits; tourism is important to the economy. It is home to Palm Beach Atlantic College (1968). |
| Like Palm Beach, to which it is connected by bridges, it was developed by railroad tycoon Henry M Flagler in the early 1890s. Flagler's home here is now a museum. The Atlanta Braves and Montréal Expos play spring training baseball in the city. An international airport is on the southwestern outskirts. |
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