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Place Name
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Citrus County
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Place Status (Type)
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county
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Capital is
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Inverness
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Population
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93,515 (1990)
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Location
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Florida, United States, North America
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Latitude
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28°51'N
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Longitude
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82°31'W
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Citrus
, county (
773 sq mi/2,002 sq km; 1990 pop.
93,515), W central Fla., on Gulf of Mexico, and bounded N and E by
Withlacoochee R.;  Inverness; 28°51'N 82°31'W. Its swampy
coast is dotted by Homosassa Isls.; contains Tsala Apopka L. in E. Agr.
(corn, peanuts, citrus fruit; cattle, hogs); fishing; lumbering;
quarrying (phosphate, limestone, clay). Formed 1887.
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