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Place Name
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Belle Glade
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Place Status (Type)
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city
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Population
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16,177 (1990)
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Location
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Palm Beach County, Florida (FL), United States, North America
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Latitude
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26°41'N
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Longitude
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80°40'W
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Belle Glade
, city (
4 sq mi/10.4 sq km; 1990 pop.
16,177), NW Palm Beach co., SE Fla., just E of S tip of L. Okeechobee;
26°41'N 80°40'W. Trade and processing center for a
vegetable-farming, sugarcane, and cattle area. The city has a large,
impoverished migrant-worker pop. Agr. experiment station located
nearby. Inc. 1928.
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