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The county comprises the Cape Coral–Fort Myers Metropolitan Statistical Area ([[Metropolitan statistical area|MSA]]), which, along with the [[Naples, Florida|Naples]]-[[Marco Island, Florida|Marco Island]] ([[Collier County, Florida|Collier County]]) MSA and the [[Clewiston, Florida|Clewiston]] ([[Hendry County, Florida|Hendry County]]) Micropolitan Statistical Area ([[Micropolitan statistical area|μSA]]), is included in the Cape Coral-Fort Myers-Naples Combined Statistical Area ([[Combined statistical area|CSA]]).<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 21, 2023 |title=Revised Delineations of Metropolitan Statistical Areas, Micropolitan Statistical Areas, and Guidance on the Uses of the Delineations of These Areas |url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/OMB-Bulletin-23-01.pdf |access-date=July 21, 2023 |website=Executive Office of the President |pages=47, 129}}</ref>
Lee County was established in 1887 from [[Monroe County, Florida|Monroe County]].<ref name="Florida Historical Society">{{cite book |title=Publications of the Florida Historical Society |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WZQ-AAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA32 |publisher=Florida Historical Society |year=1908 |page=32}}</ref> Fort Myers is the county seat and a center of tourism in Southwest Florida. It is about {{convert|120|mi|km}} south of [[Tampa]] at the meeting point of the [[Gulf of Mexico]] and the [[Caloosahatchee River]].<ref name="Colihan">[http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/2006/1/2006_1_25.shtml Jane Colihan] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090601231825/http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/2006/1/2006_1_25.shtml |date=June 1, 2009}} "Spring Break", ''American Heritage'', February/March 2006</ref> Lee County is the home for spring training of the
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