Editing Florida panhandle (section)

===Emerald Coast===
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[[File:Emerald Coast Florida.png|right|Location of Florida's Emerald Coast]]
[[File:Beach in Destin, Florida.jpg|thumb|Beach in Destin]]

''Emerald Coast'', a term coined in 1983,<ref>[http://www.nwfdailynews.com/opinion/owns-41394-coast-don.html "Who owns 'Emerald Coast'?"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110702072125/http://www.nwfdailynews.com/opinion/owns-41394-coast-don.html |date=July 2, 2011 }}, ''Northwest Florida Daily News'', June 29, 2011, accessed July 10, 2011.</ref> refers in general to the beaches and coastal resorts from Pensacola to [[Port St. Joe, Florida|Port St. Joe]],<ref name="Emerald Coast Map by ChananEstates.com" group=Emerald_Coast>{{cite web|title=Chanan Estates in the Emerald Coast|url=http://chananestates.com/Emerald%20Coast%20Map3.jpg| work=ChananEstates.com| publisher=Chanan Estates Property Owners' Association|access-date=April 16, 2013|author=ChananEstates.com|page=http://www.chananestates.com/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130908142845/http://chananestates.com/Emerald%20Coast%20Map3.jpg|archive-date=September 8, 2013|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> but is sometimes used to refer, by extension, to the panhandle as a whole, especially west of the Apalachicola. Earlier designations include "Playground of the Gulfcoast" and the "Miracle Strip", especially for the area between [[Fort Walton Beach, Florida|Fort Walton Beach]] and [[Panama City, Florida|Panama City]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FPiHAAAAMAAJ&q=%22redneck+riviera%22|title=The Florida Handbook|date=May 7, 1985|publisher=Peninsular Publishing Company|via=Google Books}}</ref> Coastal regions of the following counties (if not the entirety of the counties themselves) are usually included when referring to the Emerald Coast:

* [[Escambia County, Florida|Escambia County]]
* [[Santa Rosa County, Florida|Santa Rosa County]]<ref name="Emerald Coast - SEE-Florida" group="Emerald_Coast">{{cite web |author=Miles Media Group, Inc. |title=Emerald Coast - SEE-Florida |url=http://www.see-florida.com/emerald-coast |access-date=April 16, 2013 |work=SEE-Florida |page=http://www.see-florida.com/emerald-coast}}</ref>
* [[Okaloosa County, Florida|Okaloosa County]]<ref name="EmeraldCoastFL.com" group="Emerald_Coast">{{cite web|title=Official Site|url=http://www.emeraldcoastfl.com/|work=Northwest Florida's Emerald Coast|access-date=April 16, 2013|author=The Emerald Coast Convention and Visitors Bureau, Inc.|page=http://www.emeraldcoastfl.com/index.html}}</ref><ref name="TripAdvisor.com - Emerald Coast" group="Emerald_Coast">{{cite web|title=Emerald Coast - Florida - Reviews of Emerald Coast|url=http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g28930-d524800-Reviews-Emerald_Coast-Florida.html|work=TripAdvisor|access-date=April 16, 2013|author=TripAdvisor, LLC.|page=http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g28930-d524800-Reviews-Emerald_Coast-Florida.html}}</ref> 
* [[Walton County, Florida|Walton County]]<ref name="VisitSouthWalton.com - State Parks" group=Emerald_Coast>{{cite web|title=South Walton State Parks - South Walton, Florida|url=http://www.visitsouthwalton.com/discover-our-parks|work=VisitSouthWalton.com {{!}} The Official South Walton Tourism Site|publisher=VisitSouthWalton.com|access-date=April 16, 2013|author=South Walton Tourist Development Council|page=http://www.visitsouthwalton.com/grayton-beach-state-park|quote=Grayton Beach State Park is among the priceless natural treasures of Florida’s Emerald Coast.}}</ref>

Coastal portions of [[Bay County, Florida|Bay County]] are also regularly included when referring to the Emerald Coast, but with somewhat less regularity than the four aforementioned counties listed above.