|-| Mayor| Pam Iorio|-| align="center" colspan=2 | Website|}Tampa is a major United States city located in Hillsborough County, on the west coast of Florida. It serves as its county seat. The population within the city limits in 2004, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, was 321,772; making it the third largest city in the state, following Jacksonville and Miami. Tampa is a part of the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater metropolitan area. The four-county area is composed of roughly 2.6 million residents, making it the second largest Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) in the state behind Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, and the third largest in the southeast. Source: [wikipedia: tampa, florida]