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 | | It is bounded on the N by Alabama and Georgia, on the E by the Atlantic Ocean, on the S by the Straits of Florida (separating it from Cuba), and on the W by the Gulf of Mexico and Alabama. |
 | | The principal minerals found in Florida are limestone, throughout much of the peninsula; phosphate rock, especially E of Tampa Bay; petroleum, chiefly in Santa Rosa Co., in the NW, and near Fort Myers, in the SW; and fuller’s earth, mainly in the Panhandle. |
 | | Voters in 1998 approved a constitutional amendment to streamline the Florida cabinet, effective with the 2002 election; a key provision of the amendment was the elimination of the secretary of state as an elective position and a reassignment of the functions of that office to gubernatorial appointees. |
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