Category:North America/United States of America/Florida/Sarasota/

Coordinates: 27°20′14″N 82°32′07″W 27.33722, -82.53528

Sarasota

Sarasota is a city located in Sarasota County on the southwestern coast of the state of Florida in the United States. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Sarasota had a population of 54,349 in 2004. In 1986 it became designated as a certified local government. Sarasota is a principal city of the Bradenton-Sarasota-Venice, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area, and is the seat of Sarasota County. Some famous people such as Brian Johnson of ACDC live here.It is among the communities included in a two-county federally-mandated Metropolitan Planning Organization that includes all of Sarasota and Manatee counties and the chairs of the three elements of that organization belong to the eight-county regional planning organization for western central Florida.^[1]

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