City Details: Jacksonville

A few alternate names for Jacksonville are: Ceksonvill, Cow Creek, Cow Ford, Cowford, Dzeksonvil, Dzeksonvila, Dzeksonvilis, Dzhaksnvil, Dzhehksanvil, Dzhehksonvill

Jacksonville is the most populous city proper in the U.S. state of Florida, located on the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida. It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city consolidated in 1968. It is the tenth-most populous U.S. city and the largest city in the Southeast with a population of 949,611 at the 2020 census and estimated at over 1 million in 2024, while the Jacksonville metropolitan area at over 1.76 million residents is the fourth-largest metropolitan area in Florida and 38th-largest in the United States. City-county consolidation greatly increased Jacksonville's official population and extended its boundaries, placing most of Duval County's population within the new municipal limits; Jacksonville grew to 900 square miles (2,300 km2). It is the largest city by total area in the contiguous United States.