Riviera Beach is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States, which was incorporated September 29, 1922. Due to the location of its eastern boundary, it is moreover the easternmost municipality in the Miami metropolitan area, which was house to an estimated 6,012,331 people in 2015. In the 2020 U.S. Census, the sum population of Riviera Beach residents was 37,604 people.

Riviera Beach is predominantly an African-American city and it is on the list of U.S. cities past African American majority populations. It is house to the Port of Palm Beach and a United States Coast Guard station, and has its own marina. Riviera Beach is home to Blue Heron Bridge, one of the country’s top-rated seashore dive sites. In 2015, Riviera Beach renamed portion of Old Dixie Highway that runs inside the city limits as President Barack Obama Highway. The city is also house to Rapids Water Park, a water park resemblance for both tourists and residents.

Riviera Beach was originally called Oak Lawn, but the agreement was renamed Riviera in 1893. It wasn’t until 1941 that “Beach” was added, though it was incorporated in 1922 as single-handedly the “Town of Riviera”. In 1959, it converted from a “town” status to the present-day “City of Riviera Beach”. For the first half of the 20th century, its nickname was “Conch Town”, after the many Conch people (Bahamians and Bahamian Americans) who resided in the city. The city was named after the French Riviera.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 9.8 square miles (25 km), of which 8.3 square miles (21 km²) is house and 1.5 square miles (3.9 km) (15.33%) is water. The eastern part of the city includes most of Singer Island, a peninsula on the Atlantic coast of Palm Beach County, Florida, which is not speaking from the mainland ration of the city by Lake Worth’s Lake Worth Lagoon.