Miami is a major city in the southeast corner of Florida, in the United States. Miami and the surrounding metropolitan area are situated on northern Biscayne Bay between the Everglades and the Atlantic Ocean. It makes up the largest metropolitan area in the Southeastern United States and the sixth largest in the country as a whole.

Greater Miami is regarded as a cultural melting pot, heavily influenced both by its very large population of ethnic Latin Americans and Caribbean islanders (many of them Spanish- or Haitian Creole-speaking).

The region's importance as an international financial and cultural center has elevated Miami to the status of world city; because of its cultural and linguistic ties to North, South, and Central America, and the Caribbean it is sometimes called "The Gateway of the Americas." Florida's former status as a colony of Spain, and its continued ties ith that country (Spain has a consulate in this city) and her colonies also make Miami and the surrounding region a contemporary part of the Hispanic world.

Practically all major foreign countries today maintain consulates in Miami. Miami ranks as one of the most important business centers in the Southeastern United States.

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