Royal Palm Beach is a village in southeast Florida, located within Palm Beach County. The population was measured at 34,140 in the 2010 census. It is allowance of the Miami Metropolitan Area. Despite its name, the village is located approximately fifteen miles inland from the Atlantic Ocean.

Royal Palm Beach is known for its many parks and general mission to protect green space, as evidenced by the recent acquisition of 190 acres (0.77 km) to create a master central park and the improve of 25 acres (100,000 m²) preserved into a passive bird watching and nature park. The village offers a variety of goings-on for the external and sports aficionada including soccer, basketball, tennis, Pop Warner teenage years football and cheerleading, senior activities, and year-round golf programs. The public schools within the Village consist of “A”-rated elementary and middle schools and there are numerous private schools offering classes from pre-kindergarten through tall school.

Incorporated on June 18, 1959, Royal Palm Beach has grown from a primarily uninhabited swamp and natural maintain and former Seminole hunting dome into a flourishing village of an estimated 40,000 residents.

It was not until the 1950s, when Philadelphia supermarket magnates Sam and Hattie Friedland purchased 65,000 acres (260 km) for approximately $1.25 million in what is now the Royal Palm Beach village and Acreage areas, that the natural wilderness landed on national fastest growing community lists (in its size category) in the 1980s. The Friedlands once sold their house to Miami developer Arthur Desser, founder of Lefcourt Realty Group. About 4,200 acres (17 km²) were earmarked for Desser’s Royal Palm Beach development.