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Florida Panhandle, Northwest Florida eller West Florida, en uformel, uofficiel betegnelse for den nordvestlige del af den amerikanske stat Florida, er en stribe land, der er ca. 320 km lang og 80-160 km bred, og som ligger mellem Alabama i nord og vest, Georgia også i nord og den Mexicanske Golf i syd. Dens østlige grænse er vilkårligt defineret. Betegnelserne Vestflorida og Nordvestflorida er i dag generelt synonyme med Panhandle, selv om Vestflorida historisk set var navnet på en britisk koloni (1763-1783), senere en spansk koloni (1783-1821), som begge omfattede det nuværende Florida vest for Apalachicola-floden samt dele af det, der nu er Alabama, Mississippi og Louisiana.
The Florida Panhandle, Northwest Florida, or West Florida, an informal, unofficial term for the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Florida, is a strip of land roughly 200 miles long and 50 to 100 miles wide (320 km by 80 to 160 km), lying between Alabama on the north and the west, Georgia also on the north, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. Its eastern boundary is arbitrarily defined. The terms West Florida and Northwest Florida are today generally synonymous with the Panhandle, although historically West Florida was the name of a British colony (1763–1783), later a Spanish colony (1783–1821), both of which included modern-day Florida west of the Apalachicola River as well as portions of what are now Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
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