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The Tampa Bay Area, also known as the Bay Area, Bay
Area, FL (in constrast to the
San Francisco Bay Area), or simply
Tampa
Bay after the body of water it surrounds, is the second most
populated metropolitan region in the state of
Florida,
and the
19th-largest metro area in the
United States. It is defined by the
Office of Management and Budget for
census purposes as the
Tampa-St.
Petersburg-Clearwater,
Florida,
Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population for the Tampa Bay
Area currently stands at 2,697,731, as of a
July 1,
2006
estimate.[1]
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. Between 2000 and 2006, the combined Tampa Bay and Sarasota region
(comprising eight counties) experienced a combined growth rate of 14.8
percent, growing from 3.4 million to 3.9 million and hitting the 4
million mark on April 1, 2007 in the continuous tampa urban area.[2] |

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