Jacksonville, Florida (usa)

Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville, Florida ranks 278th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Austin, Texas, Durban, and Poznań. Memorable people born in Jacksonville, Florida include John Archibald Wheeler, Fred Durst, and Scott McKenzie. Memorable people who died in Jacksonville, Florida include Bessie Coleman, Barbara Bedford, and Paul Sorvino. Jacksonville, Florida has been the birth place of many musicians, and actors and the death place of many actors, and soccer players. Jacksonville, Florida is located in United States.

Jacksonville is the most populous city proper in the U.S. state of Florida, located on the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida. It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city consolidated in 1968. It is the tenth-most populous U.S. city with a population of 949,611 at the 2020 census and estimated at over 1 million in 2024, while the Jacksonville metropolitan area at over 1.76 million residents is the fourth-largest metropolitan area in Florida and 38th-largest in the United States. City-county consolidation greatly increased Jacksonville's official population and extended its boundaries, placing most of Duval County's population within the new municipal limits; Jacksonville grew to 900 square miles (2,300 km2). It is the second-largest city by area in the contiguous United States. Read more on Wikipedia