Where is St Petersburg located and why is it located there?

Answer 1

It is in Florida and is on a peninsula between Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. It is a popular Tourist and Retirement location because of it's nickname of the "Sunshine City" because it supposedly has 360 days of sunshine per year.

There's also a St. Petersburg in Russia. It was founded in 1703 and was named after St. Peter, not Peter the Great. It's known as "the Capital of the north", and "the Venice of the north".

Answer 2

St. Petersburg is a city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States. It is known as a vacation destination for both American and foreign tourists. As of the 2010 census, the population was 244,769,[2] making St. Petersburg the fourth most populous city in the state of Florida and the largest city in Florida that is not a county seat.[3] Although the city of Clearwater is the county seat of Pinellas County, all county services are available through county offices in St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg is the second largest city in the Tampa Bay Area, which is composed of roughly 2.8 million residents,[4] making it the second largest Metropolitan Statistical Area in the state.