Best Hotels in Miami

Miami  is the principal city, most populous city and the center of the South Florida metropolitan area, the 7th largest in the U.S. with a population of 5,414,712. The Miami Urbanized Area was the fifth most populous urbanized area  in the U.S. in 2000 with a population of 4,919,036, but in 2008 that number increased to 5,232,342, making it the fourth-largest urbanized area in the United States, behind New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida, Miami is the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida, and the eighth-most populous county in the United States, with a population of 2,500,625.

A well-known global city, Miami is a major center and leader in finance, commerce, culture, media, fashion, education, film, print media, entertainment, the arts and international trade. Known as The Gateway to the Americas, Miami is a major international center and leader in entertainment, education, media, music, fashion, film, culture, print media, and the performing arts.

Downtown Miami, South Florida’s downtown, is home to the largest concentration of international banks in the United States, and is home to many large companies both nationally and internationally.

For well more than two decades, the Port of Miami, known as the “Cruise Capital of the World” and “Cargo Gateway of the Americas,” is the number one cruise passenger port in the world accommodating the largest cruise ships in the world and operations and is the busiest in both passenger traffic and cruise lines.cruiselines.htm Cruise lines departing from the Port of Miami

In 2008, Miami was ranked as “America’s Cleanest City” according to Forbes Magazine for its year-round good air quality, vast green spaces, clean drinking water, clean streets and city-wide recycling programs.In a 2009, UBS study of 73 world cities, Miami was ranked as the richest city in the United States (of four U. S. cities included in the survey) and the world’s fifth-richest city, in terms of purchasing power.