It used to be called 'God's Waiting Room'. And even today, if you mention Miami to someone who hasn't been here or read about it lately, they might conjure up a blurry memory of octogenarians mingling poolside while Aunt Sadie implored them to wait half an hour after eating before going into the water. Today the old folks mingle with fashion designers, bikini models and Cuban émigrés, and a city that once had the highest murder rate in the US attracts more than 11 million tourists a year.
The Greater Miami Area, which includes Miami and Miami Beach as well as distinctive neighborhoods like Little Havana and Little Haiti, is a melting pot that America's founding fathers would be proud of. Half of Miami's population is Hispanic, and its immigrant communities focus on what's happening in Havana or Caracas as much as they follow events in Washington DC, giving the city an international outlook. For the casual visitor this means a city peppered with the flavors of Latin American food, language, music, politics and spirit. Most visitors head for Miami Beach, a city built on a sandbar across Biscayne Bay from Miami. Many of the beach's locals are imports from New York, people tired of sitting through five hours of snarled traffic on their way to the Hamptons, who decided that Miami Beach made a lot more sense.
They brought with them a fledgling art and culture crowd whose numbers included many younger artists.

Population: 600,000 in City of Miami; 95,000 in Miami Beach; Greater Miami 2.1 million
Area: 45 sq mi (117 sq km)
State: Florida Time
Zone: Eastern Standard Time (GMT/UTC minus 5 hours)
Telephone area code: Metropolitan Miami: 305; Miami and Miami Beach: 786

 
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