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| | Miami-Dade County, Florida Encyclopedia Article @ FredericksburgArtists.com (Fredericksburg Artists) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Miami-Dade County (formerly known as Dade County) is a county located in the southeastern part of the state of Florida. |
 | | Miami-Dade is unusual among U.S. counties in that the native language of the majority of the population is not English. |
 | | The County is the "upper tier", and it provides services of a metropolitan nature, such as emergency management, airport and seaport operations, public housing and health care services, transportation, environmental services, solid waste disposal etc. These are funded by county taxes, which are assessed on all incorporated and unincorporated areas. |
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