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Miami, located in southeastern Florida, is among the largest urbanized area in the United States next to New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago. The city is ranked as a global city owing to significant role it plays in international trade and commerce, business and finance, culture and arts, media and entertainment.
Tourism is a major industry, in fact, the Port of Miami is home to many cruise line headquarters and the city accommodates the largest volume of cruise ships in the world. The tallest building in Miami is the famous 789-foot Four Seasons Hotel & Tower. With nine of the ten tallest skyscrapers in the state of Florida, Miami is renowned for possessing a stunning skyline, ranking third behind that of New York City and Chicago.
Miami possesses a tropical climate where its warm and humid most of the year but when it rains in Miami it really pours. Meanwhile, the influential Forbes Magazine ranks Miami as 2008s \"America\'s Cleanest City\" attributed to,among others, excellent air quality and impressive city-wide recycling programs. |
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