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Lakeland
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city in Polk County, Florida, United States
Lakeland is a city located in Polk County in central Florida. It serves as an important urban center in the region and is home to various businesses, cultural institutions, and recreational opportunities.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Official name
- Lakeland
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Polk County
- Population
- 112641
- Area
- 192.405697
- Elevation
- 141
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Official website
- www.lakelandgov.net
- Image
- Downtownlakeland fl.JPG
- Households
- 41750
- Dialing code
- 863
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- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Lakeland, Florida
- twinned administrative body
- Bălți
- Commons category
- Lakeland, Florida
- topic's main category
- Category:Lakeland, Florida
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Lakeland
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Lakeland, Florida
- postal code
- 33815
- inception
- 1875-00-00
- P8168
- Ydzhydyol
- social media followers
- 13509
- water as percent of area
- 12.1377
- per capita income
- 29398
- number of viewers/listeners
- 670495
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Encyclopedic overview
Lakeland is a city in Polk County, Florida, United States. Located along I-4 east of Tampa and southwest of Orlando, it is the most populous city in Polk County. As of the 2020 U.S. Census Bureau release, the city had a population of 112,641. Lakeland is a principal city of the Lakeland–Winter Haven Metropolitan Statistical Area. Lakeland is situated among several lakes including Lake Morton downtown and is sometimes locally referred to by the nickname "Swan City" due to its sizeable population of swans, all of whom are descendants of two mute swans given to Lakeland by Queen Elizabeth II in 1957. Lakeland is home to several colleges and universities. Lakeland Linder International Airport is in Lakeland as is the corporate headquarters of Publix, a supermarket chain.
European-American settlers arrived in Lakeland from Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and South Carolina in the 1870s. The city expanded in the 1880s with the arrival of rail service, with the first freedmen railway workers settling here in 1883. They and European immigrants also came because of land development opportunities with farming, citrus, cattle and phosphate industry developing. Lakeland is home to the 1,267-acre Circle B Bar Reserve (513 ha).
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