Florida, constituent state of the United States of America. It was admitted as the 27th state in 1845. Florida is the most populous of the southeastern states and the second most populous Southern state after Texas.

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The capital is Tallahassee, located in the northwestern panhandle. Florida, nicknamed the Sunshine State, is a peninsula located in the Southeastern United States. It shares a border with both Alabama and Georgia in the North and is the only state with a coastline along both the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.