Orlando (/ ɔːr ˈ l æ n d oʊ /) is a city in the U.S. state of Florida and is the county seat of Orange County.In Central Florida, it is the center of the Orlando metropolitan area, which had a population of 2,509,831, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures released in July 2017, making it the 23rd-largest metropolitan area in the United States, the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the ....