Editing Escambia County, Florida (section)

==Geography==
According to the [[U.S. Census Bureau]], the county has an area of {{convert|875|sqmi}}, of which {{convert|656|sqmi}} is land and {{convert|218|sqmi}} (25.0%) is water.<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=April 23, 2011|date=February 12, 2011|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref>

The county jurisdiction includes the island of [[Santa Rosa Island, Florida|Santa Rosa]] south of Pensacola; it is not part of [[Santa Rosa County, Florida|Santa Rosa County]] proper. Escambia County is part of the [[Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area|Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent Metropolitan Statistical Area]].

===Adjacent counties===
* [[Escambia County, Alabama]] — north
* [[Santa Rosa County, Florida]] — east
* [[Baldwin County, Alabama]] — west

Escambia County, Florida, and Escambia County, Alabama, are two of 22 counties or parishes in the United States with the same name to border each other across state lines.<!--Hide this list, or put it as an article to be referenced from articles related to these places. It's not significant for these southern counties to have all the other pairs listed. "The others are [[Bristol County, Massachusetts]] and [[Bristol County, Rhode Island]], [[Kent County, Delaware]] and [[Kent County, Maryland]], [[Vermillion County, Indiana]] and [[Vermilion County, Illinois]], [[Pike County, Illinois]] and [[Pike County, Missouri]], [[Union Parish, Louisiana]] and [[Union County, Arkansas]], [[Sabine Parish, Louisiana]] and [[Sabine County, Texas]], [[Teton County, Idaho]] and [[Teton County, Wyoming]], [[Big Horn County, Montana]] and [[Big Horn County, Wyoming]], [[Park County, Montana]] and [[Park County, Wyoming]], and [[San Juan County, New Mexico]] and [[San Juan County, Utah]],  ."-->

===National protected areas===
* [[Gulf Islands National Seashore]] (part)