Question: The Jacksonville Tarpons, were a minor league baseball team, based in which city and state, that's the largest city by population, in the U.S. state of Florida, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States?

Context articles: Florida
Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp
Neighborhoods of Jacksonville
Jacksonville Tomato Pickers
Jacksonville Tarpons
Sarasota Gulls
Fort Lauderdale Tarpons
Al Lopez Field
Jacksonville Braves
Jacksonville, Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.
 It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico and Alabama, to the north by Alabama and Georgia, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the south by the Straits of Florida.
 Florida is the 22nd-most extensive, the 3rd-most populous, and the 8th-most densely populated of the U.S. states.
 Jacksonville is the most populous municipality in the state, and is legally the largest city by area in the contiguous United States (due to the consolidation of Jacksonville with Duval County).
 The Miami metropolitan area is Florida's most populous urban area.
 The city of Tallahassee is the state capital.
The Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp, formerly known as the Jacksonville Suns, are a minor league baseball team based in Jacksonville, Florida.
 The team is a member of the Southern League and is the class Double-A affiliate of the Miami Marlins.
 Two teams named the Suns have played in Jacksonville since 1962: a class Triple-A International League team from 1962–1968, and the current Double-A team from 1970 to 2016.
 From 1985–1990 the team was known as the Jacksonville Expos, when they were affiliated with the Montreal Expos MLB team.
 The team rebranded itself as the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp on November 2, 2016 and began the 2017 season under the new name.
There are more than 500 neighborhoods within the area of Jacksonville, Florida, the largest city in the contiguous United States by area.
 These include Downtown Jacksonville and surrounding neighborhoods.
 Additionally, greater Jacksonville is traditionally divided into several major sections with amorphous boundaries: Northside, Westside, Southside, and Arlington, as well as the Jacksonville Beaches.
The Jacksonville Tomato Pickers were a minor league baseball team based in Jacksonville, Texas, United States that played in the East Texas League in 1916.
 It was the first known professional baseball team to be based in Jacksonville, and would be the last until the Jacksonville Jax of the West Dixie League were formed in 1934.
 The team was managed by Arthur Wicks.
The Jacksonville Tarpons were a minor league baseball team based in Jacksonville, Florida.
 They played in the Class-C South Atlantic League from 1904 through 1917.
 They were originally named the Jacksonville Jays from 1904 to 1910, then were the Tarpons through 1916 before being the Jacksonville Roses their last season in 1917.
The Sarasota Gulls were a minor league baseball team, based in Sarasota, Florida, as a member of the early Florida State League.
 The team played in 1926 as the Gulls, however the following season they played as the Sarasota Tarpons.
 They were the first team to represent Sarasota inside of Florida State League.
 The city would not host another FSL team until the Sarasota Sun Sox arrived in 1961.
 The team folded in 1928, when the FSL went on a hiatus.
The Fort Lauderdale Tarpons were a minor league baseball team that played in the Florida State League in 1928 and in the Florida East Coast League from 1940 to 1942.
 Located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, they were affiliated with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1940.
Al López Field was a spring training and Minor League baseball park in West Tampa, Tampa, Florida, United States.
 It was named for Al López, who was the first Tampa native to play Major League Baseball (MLB), manage a MLB team, and be enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
 Al López Field was built in 1954 and hosted its first spring training in , when the Chicago White Sox moved their training site to Tampa from California.
 Al López became the White Sox's manager in 1957, and for the next three springs, he was the home manager in a ballpark named after himself.
 The Cincinnati Reds replaced the White Sox as Al López Field's primary tenant in and would return every spring for almost 30 years.
 The Tampa Tarpons, the Reds' Class-A minor league affiliate in the Florida State League, played at the ballpark every summer.
The Jacksonville Braves were a minor league baseball team based in Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.
 The Class A affiliate of the Milwaukee Braves Major League Baseball team, they played in the South Atlantic League (the "Sally League") from 1953 to 1961.
 They played their home games at Durkee Field and then Wolfson Park.
Jacksonville is the largest city by population in the U.S. state of Florida, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States.
 It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968.
 Consolidation gave Jacksonville its great size and placed most of its metropolitan population within the city limits; with an estimated population of 913,010 as of 2017, Jacksonville is the most populous city in the state of Florida and the southeastern United States.
 The Jacksonville metropolitan area has a population of 1,626,611.
 It is the 34th largest MSA in the United States and fourth largest in Florida.