Tampa Bay Area
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| State : | Florida |
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Hernando , Hillsborough , Pasco , Pinellas |
| Area : | 6,616 km² |
| Residents : | 2,783,243 (2010) |
| Population density : | 421 inhabitants / km² |
The Tampa Bay Area is a metropolitan area on Tampa Bay , a bay on the west coast of the US state of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico . It includes Hernando , Hillsborough , Pasco, and Pinellas Counties . The biggest cities are Tampa , Saint Petersburg and Clearwater .
The area is densely populated, many companies have offices here, and there are several amusement parks. The MacDill Air Force Base , headquarters of the US Central Command, is also located in Tampa .
Several rivers flow into the sea in the area, which makes them particularly vulnerable to flooding. A study by the World Bank in 2013 classified coastal cities according to how threatened they are with flooding. Tampa came 7th in terms of estimated total damage - worldwide.
Around 393,000 people live in the city of Tampa and a further 265,000 people in Saint Petersburg (as of 2018). That makes these two cities the third and fourth largest in the Sunshine State after Jacksonville and Miami .
The area is known as the Metropolitan Statistical Area under the name Tampa – St. Petersburg – Clearwater and has a population of around 3.2 million (estimate for 2019, at the 2010 census it was 2,783,243 inhabitants).
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Which Coastal Cities Are at Highest Risk of Damaging Floods? New Study Crunches the Numbers . In: World Bank . ( worldbank.org [accessed September 10, 2017]).
- ↑ CPH-T-5. Population Change for Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas in the United States and Puerto Rico: 2000 to 2010. Retrieved March 30, 2016 .
Coordinates: 27 ° 46 ′ N , 82 ° 33 ′ W