Boca Raton, Florida

Boca Raton is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, in the United States, about 45 miles (72 km) north of Miami and a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area. It was incorporated on August 2, 1924, as Bocaratone and again as Boca Raton on May 26, 1925. The name is Spanish and literally means mouse mouth, boca being a mapmakers term for an inlet. The area was first home to the Glades culture before Spanish and British colonial rule, and the present city was shaped in the 1920s by the architect Addison Mizner, whose Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival buildings still mark it. In the 1980s it was the birthplace of the first IBM personal computer. It is home to Florida Atlantic University and Lynn University, and a strict development code keeps billboards and large signs off its main roads. The 2020 census counted 97,422 residents.