File:Sugden Community Theatre.jpg
File:Naples City Dock1.jpg, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the city's population at 21,653. Naples is a principal city of the Naples"Marco Island, Florida Naples-Marco Island, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had an estimated total population of 315,839 on 1 July 2007. Despite being the largest city in Collier County, the city of Naples is not its county seat; rather the county seat is located east of the city in unincorporated East Naples, Florida.

History
Naples was founded during the late 1880s by former Confederate States Army general and Kentucky U.S. Senator John Stuart Williams...

File:Sugden Community Theatre.jpg
File:Naples City Dock1.jpg, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the city's population at 21,653. Naples is a principal city of the Naples"Marco Island, Florida Naples-Marco Island, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had an estimated total population of 315,839 on 1 July 2007. Despite being the largest city in Collier County, the city of Naples is not its county seat; rather the county seat is located east of the city in unincorporated East Naples, Florida.

History
Naples was founded during the late 1880s by former Confederate States Army general and Kentucky U.S. Senator John Stuart Williams and his partner, Louisville, Kentucky businessman Walter N. Haldeman, the publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal. Throughout the 1870s and 80 s, magazine and newspaper stories telling of the area's mild climate and abundant fish and game likened it to the sunny Italian peninsula. The name Naples caught on when promoters described the bay as'surpassing the bay in Naples, Italy'.

Geography
Naples is located at (26.152941, -81.798510) on U.S. Highway 41 between Miami, Florida (to the east) and Fort Myers, Florida (to the north).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of, of which is land and is water(16.53%).