page_title: Broward County, Florida
section_title: Sites of interest
hierarchical_section_title: Broward County, Florida / Sites of interest
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Stranahan House, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida English: Stranahan House, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
context_page_description: Broward County is located in southeastern Florida, US. According to the 2019 Census Bureau estimate, the county had a population of 1,952,778, making it the second-most populous county in the state of Florida and the 17th-most populous county in the United States. The county seat is Fort Lauderdale.
  Broward County is one of the three counties in South Florida that make up the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,198,782 people in 2018.
  The county has 31 municipalities, which consist of 24 incorporated cities and many unincorporated areas. It is also Florida's seventh-largest county in terms of land area, with 1,322.8 square miles. Broward County's urbanized area occupies 427.8 square miles of land. The largest portion of the county is the Conservation Area that extends west to border Collier County. The conservation area is 796.9 square miles and consists of wetlands. At its widest points, the County stretches approximately 50.3 miles east to west and approximately 27.4 miles from north to south, averaging 5 to 25 feet in elevation.
caption: Stranahan House, Fort Lauderdale
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