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Tampa is a Gulf
Coast city in the U.S. state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for
Hillsborough County. Tampa is located on the west coast of
Florida.
 The current
location of Tampa was once inhabited by various indigenous cultures, most
recently the Tocobaga. It was spotted by Spanish explorers in the early
1500s, but there was no permanent American or European settlements in the
area until 1824, when the US Army established a frontier outpost called
Fort Brooke at the site of today's Tampa Convention Center. The village
of Tampa began as a small group of pioneers who settled near the fort for
protection from the Seminole population in the area.
Today,
Tampa is a part of the metropolitan area most commonly referred to as the
Tampa Bay Area. For U.S. Census purposes, Tampa is part of the Tampa-St.
Petersburg-Clearwater, Florida MSA. The four-county area is composed of
roughly 2.7 million residents, making it the second largest metropolitan
statistical area (MSA) in the state, and the fourth largest in the
Southeastern United States, behind Miami, Washington, D.C., and
Atlanta.[10] The Greater Tampa Bay area has just over 4 million residents
and generally includes the Tampa and Sarasota metro areas.
 
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Tampa
has a number of sports teams, such as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFL,
the Tampa Bay Lightning in the National Hockey League, and the Tampa Bay
Rays in Major League Baseball. It also has many tourist attractions.
In
2008, Tampa was ranked as the 5th best outdoor city by Forbes. A 2004 survey
by the NYU newspaper Washington Square News ranked Tampa as a top city
for "twenty-somethings".
Busch
Gardens is the name of two amusement parks in the United States, and a
planned amusement park in Dubai, owned and operated by SeaWorld Parks
& Entertainment, a division of Blackstone Group. One of the parks is
in Williamsburg, Virginia, and the other is in Tampa, Florida.
There was also previously a Busch Gardens park in Pasadena, California
(1905–1937), Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California from (1964–1979) and
Houston, Texas (1971–1973). Busch Gardens parks were initially developed
as marketing vehicles for Anheuser-Busch and featured hospitality houses
with samples of Anheuser-Busch products. They also included stables that
housed many of the company's Clydesdale horses, which have been
associated with Anheuser-Busch since 1933. Eventually, rides and
attractions were added to the parks and overtime were developed into full
theme parks while still promoting Anheuser-Busch. Busch Entertainment
Corporation, now called SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, was created
as a subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch Companies to run the various parks in
1959.
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