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Broward County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida. As of 2010, the population was 1,748,066,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/12/12001.html )〕 making it the second-most populous county in Florida and the 18th-most populous in the United States. Its county seat is Fort Lauderdale.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=June 7, 2011 )〕 Broward County is part of the Miami Metropolitan Area. ==History== Although the area has been settled since about 1400 B.C., Broward County was founded on October 1, 1915.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 website=Greater Fort Lauderdale )〕 It was named for Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, Governor of Florida from 1905 to 1909. It was originally intended to be named Everglades County, but then-Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Ion Farris amended the bill that established the county to be named after Broward. In 1915, Palm Beach County and Dade County contributed nearly equal portions of land to create Broward County.〔 Broward County began a huge development boom after its incorporation, with the first "tourist hotel", in Fort Lauderdale, opening in 1919. A year later, developers began vacating swamps in the county in order to create island communities.〔 By 1925, the boom was considered to have reached its peak, but a 1926 hurricane caused economic depression in the county.〔 The structure of county government was signed into law in 1975 with the passage of the Broward County charter.〔 At its inception Broward County was considered a leader in agricultural products and services within the State of Florida, but the massive post-World War II buildup of South Florida transformed the region. It was one of the counties at the center of the 2000 U.S. Presidential election recount controversy. From 2008 to 2011, Broward County led the nation in new HIV/AIDS diagnoses, according to federal health officials. The per capita cases of new infections in Broward has not decreased in over a decade, prompting government health agencies to direct more funding to AIDS prevention campaigns in Broward.〔 During that time period, Miami-Dade County was ranked number two nationally for the epidemic. However, as of January 31, 2014, those statistics have reversed, though not dramatically enough to be called an improvement. Some communities in the area have been affected disproportionately, with 48% of the afflicted being in black communities.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.careresource.org/hivaids/statistics/ )〕 In Broward County, sexual education in public schools is not mandatory and the curriculum that is employed sporadically has not been updated in ten years or more, according to school officials. In 2013, the Broward County School Board held a vote to require schools to teach sex-ed at least once a year for every grade, a program slated to begin in the 2014-2015 school year if passed. 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「Broward County, Florida」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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