Orlando is a city in the U.S. state of Florida and is the county chair of Orange County. In Central Florida, it is the middle of the Orlando metropolitan area, which had a population of 2,509,831, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures released in July 2017, making it the 23rd-largest metropolitan area in the United States, the sixth-largest metropolitan Place in the Southern United States, and the third-largest metropolitan area in Florida astern Miami and Tampa. Orlando had a population of 307,573 in the 2020 census, making it the 67th-largest city in the United States, the fourth-largest city in Florida, and the state’s largest inland city.

Orlando is one of the most-visited cities in the world primarily due to tourism, major events, and convention traffic; in 2018, the city drew over 75 million visitors. The Orlando International Airport (MCO) is the 13th-busiest airport in the United States and the 29th-busiest in the world. The two largest and most internationally renowned tourist attractions in the Orlando area are the Walt Disney World Resort, opened by the Walt Disney Company in 1971, and located not quite 21 miles (34 km) southwest of downtown Orlando in Bay Lake, and the Universal Orlando Resort, opened in 1990 as a major move forward of Universal Studios Florida and the lonely theme park inside Orlando city limits.

With the exception of the theme parks, most major cultural sites subsequently the Orlando Museum of Art and Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts and world-renowned nightlife, bars and clubs are located in Downtown Orlando while most attractions are located along International Drive like the Wheel at ICON Park. The city is with one of the busiest American cities for conferences and conventions; the Orange County Convention Center is the second-largest convention capability in the United States.

Like supplementary major cities in the Sun Belt, Orlando grew unexpectedly from the 1960s into the first decade of the 21st century. Orlando is house to the University of Central Florida, which is the largest academic circles campus in the United States in terms of enrollment as of 2015.^{[needs update]} In 2010, Orlando was listed as a “Gamma+” level global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network.