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Tampa is a major city in, and the county seat of, Hillsborough County, Florida, United States.[12] It is on the west coast of Florida on Tampa Bay, near the Gulf of Mexico. Tampa is the largest city in the Tampa Bay Area. With a population of 392,890 in 2018, Tampa is the third-largest city in Florida, after Miami and Jacksonville. The bay's port is the largest in the state, near downtown's Channel District. Bayshore Boulevard runs along the bay, and is east of the historic Hyde Park neighborhood.\n<\/p>
Today, Tampa is part of the metropolitan area most commonly referred to as the \"Tampa Bay Area\". For U.S. Census purposes, Tampa is part of the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. The four-county area is composed of roughly 3.1\u00a0million residents,[4] making it the second largest metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the state, and the fourth largest in the Southeastern United States, behind Washington, D.C.; Miami; and Atlanta.[13] The Greater Tampa Bay area, has over 4 million residents and generally includes the Tampa and Sarasota metro areas.\nThe city had a population of 335,709 at the 2010 census,[6] and an estimated population of 392,890 in 2018.[14] The Tampa Bay Partnership and U.S. Census data showed an average annual growth of 2.47 percent, or a gain of approximately 97,000 residents per year.\n<\/p>
The earliest instance of the name \"Tampa\", in the form \"Tanpa\", appears in the memoirs of Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda, who spent 17 years as a captive of the Calusa and traveled through much of peninsular Florida. He described Tanpa as an important Calusa town to the north of the Calusa domain, possibly under another chief. Archaeologist Jerald Milanich places the town of Tanpa at the mouth of Charlotte Harbor. The entrances to Tampa Bay and Charlotte Harbor are obscured by barrier islands, and their locations, and the names applied to them, were a source of confusion to explorers, surveyors and map-makers from the 16th century though the 18th century. Bah\u00eda Tampa and Bah\u00eda de Esp\u00edritu Santo were each used, at one time or another, for the modern Tampa Bay and Charlotte Harbor.[15][16] Tampa Bay was labeled Bah\u00eda de Esp\u00edritu Santo (Bay of the Holy Spirit) in the earliest Spanish maps of Florida, but became known as Bah\u00eda Tampa (Tampa Bay) as early as 1695.[17] \"B. Tampa\", corresponding to Tampa Bay, appeared on a British map of 1705, with \"Carlos Bay\" for Charlotte Harbor to the south, while a 1748 British map had \"B. del Spirito Santo\" for Tampa Bay, and, again, \"Carlos Bay\" to the south. A Spanish map of 1757 renamed Tampa Bay as \"San Fernando\". As late as 1774, Bernard Romans called Tampa Bay \"Bay of Espiritu Santo\", with \"Tampa Bay\" restricted to the Northwest arm (what is now Old Tampa Bay), and the northeast arm named \"Hillsborough Bay\". The name may have come from the Calusa language, or possibly, the Timucua language. Some scholars have compared \"Tampa\" to \"itimpi\", which means \"close to or nearby\" in the Creek language, but its meaning is not known.[16]<\/p><\/div>\n
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