State Song: Stephen Fosters ‘Old Folks at Home’ adopted by the 1935 Florida Legislature
State Play: ‘Cross and Sword’ presented annually by the citizens of St. Augustine
Bird: Mockingbird Marine
Mammal: The Slat Water Manatee, The Porpoise
State Animal: The Florida Panther
State Flower: The Orange Blossom
State Tree: The Sabal Palm
State Beverage: Orange Juice
State Band: The St. John’s River City Band
Admitted as the 27th state in 1845
58,664 square miles (151,939 square kilometers)
borders with Georgia and Alabama
southernmost state of the continental USA
1,700 named streams (mostly in the north and northwest) and about 30,000 named lakes (mostly in the central region).
The coastal lowlands occupy approximately 75 percent of the surface and vary in width from 10 to 100 miles
Florida's 4,000,000 acres (1,600,000 hectares) of water (of which some 2,800,000 acres are inland) contain more than 700 species of fish and shellfish
In the United States only Alaska has a tidal shoreline whose length exceeds that of Florida, which totals 8,426 miles (Gulf coast, 5,095 miles; Atlantic coast, 3,331 miles)
In total personal income, Florida ranks among the top states nationwide and ranks relatively high in income per capita
