page_title: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Fort Lauderdale, Florida / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: An aerial shot of Fort Lauderdale.
context_page_description: Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 25 miles north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2019 census, the city has an estimated population of 182,437. Fort Lauderdale is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,198,782 people in 2018.
  The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale, encompassing all of Broward County, hosted 13 million overnight visitors in 2018. There were over 560 hotels, and nearly 36,000 hotel rooms. From that, the county collected nearly $87 million from its 5% hotel development tax it charges. Additionally, 3.89 million cruise passengers passed through its Port Everglades, making it the 3rd largest cruise port in the world. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts.
  Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War.
caption: Aerial photo of Fort Lauderdale.
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