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'''Florida's First Coast''', or simply the '''First Coast''', is a [[List of regions of the United States#Florida|region]] of the U.S. state of [[Florida]], located on the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] coast of [[North Florida]]. The First Coast refers to the same general area as the directional region of '''Northeast Florida'''. It isconsists roughly comprised of the counties abutting [[Jacksonville]]{{mdash}}[[Duval County, Florida|Duval]], [[Baker County, Florida|Baker]], [[Clay County, Florida|Clay]], [[Nassau County, Florida|Nassau]], and [[St. Johns County, Florida|St. Johns]]{{mdash}}and nearby [[Flagler County, Florida|Flagler County]] and [[Putnam County, Florida|Putnam County]]. The name originated in a marketing campaign in the 1980s, and has become part of Florida's regional vernacular.