Miami Gardens is a city in north-central Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. It is located 16 miles (26 km) north of Downtown Miami in the same way as city boundaries that stretch from I-95 and Northeast 2nd Avenue to its east to Northwest 47th and Northwest 57th Avenues to its west, and from the Broward County line to its north to 151st Street to its south. The city’s state originated from Florida State Road 860, a major roadway through the Place also known as Miami Gardens Drive.

Miami Gardens had a population of 111,640 as of 2020. It is Florida’s most populous city subsequent to a majority African American population and also house to the largest percentage of African Americans (66.97 percent) of any city in Florida, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. It is a principal city within the Miami metropolitan area, the nation’s ninth largest and world’s 65th largest metropolitan area with a population of 6.158 million people as of 2020.

Miami Gardens is the home of Hard Rock Stadium, a 64,767 power multi-purpose stadium that serves as the house field for both the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League and the Miami Hurricanes, the University of Miami’s NCAA Division I college football team, which has won five national championships previously 1983.

In the wake of the construction of I-95 in the late 1960s, many middle- and upper-income African American and West Indian American families migrated from Miami neighborhoods later Liberty City to what became Miami Gardens (also called Carol City, Norland or Norwood) as race-based covenants were outlawed bearing in mind the Fair Housing Act, and mostly demean income blacks moved into the Liberty City and Little Haiti neighborhoods surrounding Liberty Square and Edison Courts.