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Jacksonville is a center for business, manufacturing, finance, insurance, culture, and medicine in northeastern Florida and nearby Georgia. Jacksonville lines both banks of the Saint Johns River, with its downtown district about 20 mi upstream from where the river empties into the Atlantic Ocean. It is also a major deepwater port of entry that has long been the home of important United States Navy facilities, including the Mayport Naval Station and the Jacksonville Naval Air Station. The Intracoastal Waterway passes through the city.

Jacksonville is Florida’s most industrialized city. Drawing on the raw materials produced by the region’s farms, forests, and mines, manufacturers produce chemicals, pulp and paper products, fabricated metal products, paints, plastics, machine parts, and processed foods. Tourism is also important to the local economy. Large office complexes have been built in downtown Jacksonville and at a number of outlying sites along interstates 295 and 95, particularly in the Butler Boulevard area in southern Jacksonville. A 2005 real estate survey has estimated the population of Jacksonville, Florida at 782,623.

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The consolidation of Jacksonville and Duval County into one jurisdiction united the central city with its surrounding suburbs, making modern Jacksonville an unusually dispersed city. The Jacksonville metropolitan area includes four counties—Duval (the most populous), Clay, Nassau, and Saint Johns. Covering 2,635.6 sq mi, the population of the area in 2000 was 1,100,491. In addition to Jacksonville, the metropolitan area includes Jacksonville Beach, Fernandina Beach, Atlantic Beach, Orange Park, and Saint Augustine—the oldest permanent European settlement in the United States.

A leading cultural facility is the Cummer Gallery of Art, with displays of Western and Asian painting and an extensive collection of Meissen porcelain. Other attractions include the Museum of Science and History and its archaeological exhibits about Florida’s Native Americans; the Karpeles Manuscript Museum, with displays of historic documents that rotate among the other Karpeles museums in the nation; the Jacksonville Art Museum, featuring contemporary and classic art; and the Jacksonville Historical Center, depicting the city’s past. In the north of the city is the Jacksonville Zoological Park, with extensive wildlife exhibits, river excursions, and Okavango Village, a re-creation of an African riverfront community.

The National Park Service administers the Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, located east of downtown between the lower Saint Johns and the Nassau Rivers. Created in 1988, the reserve protects river estuaries and historic sites, including evidence of the Timucua people who once inhabited northeast Florida. In the reserve is Fort Caroline National Memorial, the probable location of an attempt by the French to colonize Florida in 1564. The memorial contains a reduced-scale re-creation of the original fort. Also in the reserve is Kingsley Plantation, the oldest remaining plantation house in Florida. Along with the planter’s home are 23 of the original slave quarters.

Among the city’s leading recreation facilities is the riverfront Metropolitan Park, site for many of the performances in the fall Jacksonville Jazz Festival and home to the Florida National Pavilion. A number of beach resorts on the Atlantic coast, particularly Fernandina Beach and Jacksonville Beach, provide fishing, swimming, boating, golf, and tennis. The Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League play professional football at the ALLTEL Stadium. The newly renovated Gator Bowl stadium is home to an annual college football matchup held on the Saturday closest to New Year’s Day. The Players Championship of professional golf is held annually in nearby Ponte Vedra.

The Riverwalk, a landscaped complex along the south bank of the Saint Johns River, is a popular gathering place. It features a boardwalk 1.2 mi long and the Friendship Fountain, spectacularly lit at night.
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