Miami-Dade County is located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Florida. According to a 2019 census report,^[6] the county had a population of 2,716,940,^[7] making it the most populous county in Florida and the seventh-most populous county in the United States.^[8] It is also Florida’s third largest county in terms of land area, with 1,946 square miles (5,040 km²). The county seat is Miami, the principal city in South Florida.^[9]

Miami-Dade County is one of the three counties in South Florida that make up the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,198,782 people in 2018.^[10] By population, Miami-Dade is the largest majority-minority county in the United States with over 69.4% of the population being of Hispanic and Latino descent.^[11]

The third-costliest natural disaster to occur in the United States was Hurricane Andrew, which hit Miami in the early morning of Monday, August 24, 1992. It struck the southern part of the county from due east, south of Miami and very near Homestead, Kendall, and Cutler Ridge (now the Town of Cutler Bay). Damages numbered over US$25 billion in the county alone, and recovery has taken years in these areas where the destruction was greatest. This was the costliest natural disaster in US history until Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf region in 2005.

Museums

• Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach
• Coral Castle, Homestead Miami
• Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables
• Frost Art Museum, (Florida International University, Miami)
• Gold Coast Railroad Museum, Miami
• HistoryMiami, Downtown Miami
• Holocaust Memorial, Miami Beach
• Jewish Museum of Florida, Miami Beach
• Lowe Art Museum, (University of Miami, Coral Gables)
• Miami Children’s Museum, Miami
• Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
• Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami
• Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science, Miami
• Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami
• Wings Over Miami Museum, Miami
• Wolfsonian, (Florida International University, Miami Beach)

Culture and wildlife

• Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Downtown Miami
• Ancient Spanish Monastery, North Miami Beach
• Bayfront Park Amphitheatre, Downtown Miami
• Bayside Marketplace, Downtown Miami
• Colony Theatre, Miami Beach
• Florida Grand Opera, Miami
• Gusman Center for the Performing Arts, Downtown Miami
• Jungle Island, Miami
• Miami New Drama, Miami Beach
• Miami Seaquarium, Miami
• Monkey Jungle, Miami
• Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami
• Wertheim Performing Arts Center, (Florida International University, Miami)
• Zoo Miami, Miami