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|subdivision_type1 = State |subdivision_name1 = |subdivision_type2 = County |subdivision_name2 = 24px Palm Beach |established_title = Settled (Boca Raton Settlement) |established_date = Circa 1895〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum )〕 |established_title1 = Incorporated |established_date1 = 〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Florida Historical Society: Boca Raton )〕 |government_type = Council-Manager |leader_title = Mayor |leader_name = Susan Haynie (N) | leader_title1 = Deputy Mayor | leader_name1 = Robert S. Weinroth | leader_title2 = Councilmembers | leader_name2 = Michael Mullaugh, Jeremy Rodgers, and Scott Singer | leader_title3 = City Manager | leader_name3 = Leif J. Ahnell | leader_title4 = City Clerk | leader_name4 = Susan S. Saxton |area_footnotes = |area_magnitude = |area_total_sq_mi = 29.1 |area_total_km2 = 75.4 |area_land_sq_mi = 27.2 |area_land_km2 = 70.4 |area_water_sq_mi = 1.9 |area_water_km2 = 5.0 |area_urban_sq_mi = |area_urban_km2 = |area_metro_sq_mi = |area_metro_km2 = |area_blank1_title = |area_blank1_sq_mi = |area_blank1_km2 = |elevation_ft = 13 |population_as_of = 2014 |population_footnotes = |population_total = 91,332 |population_density_sq_mi = 2682.8 |population_density_km2 = 1061.7 |population_urban = |population_metro = |population_blank1_title = |population_blank1 = |population_blank2_title = |population_blank2 = |timezone = EST |utc_offset = -5 |timezone_DST = EDT |utc_offset_DST = -4 |postal_code_type = ZIP code(s) |postal_code = |area_code = 561 |blank_name = FIPS code |blank_info = 12-07300 |blank1_name = GNIS feature ID |blank1_info = 0279123 |website = |footnote = }} Boca Raton is the southernmost city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States, incorporated in May 1925 (first incorporation in 1924).〔City of Boca Raton Minutes; available at the Boca Raton Historical Society〕 The 2014 population estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau was 91,332.〔 However, approximately 200,000 people with a "Boca Raton" postal address reside outside its municipal boundaries.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Boca Raton Historical Society - Boca Museum - History of Boca Raton )〕 Such areas include newer developments such as West Boca Raton. As a business center, the city's daytime population increases significantly. It is one of the wealthiest communities in South Florida. Boca Raton is located north of Downtown Miami. In terms of both population and land area, Boca Raton is the largest city between West Palm Beach and Pompano Beach, Broward County. Boca Raton is home to the main campus of Florida Atlantic University and the headquarters of Office Depot. ==History== The name originated on maps in Spanish as "Boca de Ratones" (:ˈboka ðe raˈtones). The origin of the name Boca Raton is disputed. In Spanish "boca" means "mouth" and "ratón" means "mouse" (not "rat" as it is commonly mistranslated). However, in nautical terms the word "boca" refers to an inlet. The original name "Boca de Ratones" appeared on eighteenth-century maps associated with an inlet in the Biscayne Bay area of Miami. By the beginning of the nineteenth century, the term was mistakenly moved north to its current location on most maps and applied to the inland waterway from the closed inlet north for , which was called the "Boca Ratones Lagoon." The word "ratones" appears in old Spanish maritime dictionaries referring to "rugged rocks or stony ground on the bottom of some ports and coastal outlets, where the cables rub against."〔The Spanish Maritime Dictionary of 1831〕 Therefore, the abridged translation defining "Boca de Ratones" is "a shallow inlet of sharp-pointed rocks which scrape a ship's cables."〔Boca De Ratones: An Etymological Reassessment(Ruiz and Cobia, Feb. 14, 2012)〕 The first settler was T. M. Rickards in 1895, who resided in a house made of driftwood on the east side of the East Coast Canal south of what is now the Palmetto Park Road bridge. He surveyed and sold land from the canal to beyond the railroad north of what is now Palmetto Park Road.〔Boca Raton Historical Society, (''Spanish River Papers'' ), 1.1 (January 1973).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Boca Raton, Florida」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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