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Hillsborough County
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county in Florida, United States
Hillsborough County is a county located in Florida in the United States. It is the fourth most populous county in Florida and includes the city of Tampa, making it an important economic and cultural hub for the state.
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Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Florida
- Contains
- Tampa
- Capital
- Tampa
- Population
- 1459762
- Area
- 3279
- Shares border with
- Pinellas County
- Official website
- hcfl.gov
- Image
- Aerial view of west Tampa, Florida.jpg
- Households
- 539919
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- Commons category
- Hillsborough County, Florida
- topic's main category
- Category:Hillsborough County, Florida
- inception
- 1834-01-25
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Hillsborough County, Florida
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Hillsborough County, Florida
- different from
- Hillsborough County
- water as percent of area
- 19.4
- native label
- Hillsborough County
- per capita income
- 33616
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Encyclopedic overview
Hillsborough County is located in the west-central portion of the U.S. state of Florida. In the 2020 census, the population was 1,459,762, making it the fourth-most populous county in Florida and the most populous county outside the Miami metropolitan area. An estimate in 2021 shows the population of Hillsborough County at 1,512,070 people with a yearly growth rate of 1.34%, which itself is greater than the populations of 12 states according to their 2019 population estimates. Its county seat and largest city is Tampa. Hillsborough County is part of the Tampa–St. Petersburg–Clearwater Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hillsborough County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.