Navarre is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Santa Rosa County in the northwest Florida Panhandle. It is a major bedroom community for mostly U.S. military personnel, federal civil servants, local population, retirees and defense contractors. Due to Navarre Beach and the 4 miles (6.4 km) of beach front upon the Gulf of Mexico thereof, as competently as several miles of beaches within the Navarre Beach Marine Park and the Gulf Islands National Seashore, it has a small, but shortly growing community of nature enthusiasts and tourists. Navarre has grown from monster a small town of re 1,500 in 1970 to a town following a population estimated at 43,540 as of 2020, if including both the Navarre and Navarre Beach Census Designated Places.

Navarre is approximately 25 miles (40 km) east of Pensacola and more or less 15 miles (24 km) west of Fort Walton Beach. The community is re centered on the junction of U.S. Route 98 and State Road 87. It is part of the Pensacola–Ferry Pass–Brent Metropolitan Statistical Area (more commonly referred to as the Pensacola Metro Area), and is the second largest community in the metropolitan area, according to a study. Navarre is the third-largest community in the Florida Panhandle.

Navarre is also part of the Fort Walton Beach-Navarre-Wright Urbanized Area. It is known for the natural environment, swimming, picnic spots, and its beach.

In 1693 Spanish explorers Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and Admiral Andrés de Pez y Malzárraga set sail from Veracruz. A competent cartographer, scientist, mathematician, and theologian, Sigüenza was liable for scouting and mapping realizable sites of Spanish colonization in Northwest Florida during the expedition. While traveling in the Place of East Bay in April 1693 the Spanish discovered what is today called the East Bay River. In great compliment of Captain Jordan de Reina, an officer who had taken portion in the Barroto-Romero voyage of 1686 as without difficulty as Sigüenza’s in 1693, the Spanish dubbed the waters on which they traveled, “The River Jordan”.