Editing Bokeelia, Florida (section)

==Geography==
Bokeelia is located in western Lee County at {{coord|26|41|17|N|82|8|43|W|type:city}} (26.687960, -82.145249).<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=2011-04-23|date=2011-02-12|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref> It sits at the northern end of Pine Island and is bordered by water on three sides: [[Pine Island Sound]] to the west, [[Charlotte Harbor (estuary)|Charlotte Harbor]] to the north, and Matlacha Pass to the east. Bokeelia is bordered to the south by the unincorporated communities of [[Pineland, Florida|Pineland]] and [[Pine Island Center, Florida|Pine Island Center]].

The original settlement of Bokeelia is on Bokeelia Island, connected to Pine Island by a short bridge on Stringfellow Road (County Road 767), the main road through the community, and which ends at the town's short Main Street along Charlotte Harbor. To the south Stringfellow Road leads {{convert|7|mi|0}} to Pine Island Center, from where County Road 78 leads west to [[Cape Coral, Florida|Cape Coral]] on the mainland.

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the Bokeelia CDP has a total area of {{convert|28.9|km2|order=flip}}, of which {{convert|23.2|km2|order=flip}} are land and {{convert|5.7|km2|order=flip}}, or 19.87%, are water.<ref name=Gazetteer>{{cite web| url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2019_Gazetteer/2019_gaz_place_12.txt| title=U.S. Gazetteer Files: 2019: Places: Florida| website=U.S. Census Bureau Geography Division| access-date=November 20, 2019}}</ref>

Little Bokeelia Island, formerly owned by Charles Burgess, is a private island off Bokeelia.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ten unusual islands for sale|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/overseasproperty/10017462/10-unusual-islands-for-sale.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130426133044/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/overseasproperty/10017462/10-unusual-islands-for-sale.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-04-26|newspaper=Daily Telegraph}}</ref>