Jacksonville Florida
City of Jacksonville, FL
City Guide to Jacksonville,
Florida, USA
here
Airport Code: JAX
Located in Northeast Florida at the crossroads of two interstate
highways, Jacksonville is the largest city in the contiguous United States in
land area, a major port, the insurance and financial centre of the state, site
of U.S. Navy bases and the home of the National Football League's Jacksonville
Jaguars
The City of
Jacksonville ranks as the 14th largest city in the United States in population with more than 800,000 residents.The Jacksonville
metropolitan area, which includes three beach cities and Clay, Baker, Nassau
and St. Johns counties, has a population of more than 1,000,000 residents.
Jacksonville
International Airport (JIA) is 15 minutes from downtown by car. It is served
by 15 major and regional airlines that offer 250 daily flights to and from
most major cities in the country and is an international gateway.
By air, Jacksonville
is sixty minutes from Atlanta, Georgia forty-five minutes from
Orlando, two hours
and 15-minutes from New York and nine hours from London . Official City of
Jacksonville Florida
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