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Bokeelia is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located upon Pine Island in Lee County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, the CDP had a population of 1,855, up from 1,780 at the 2010 census. It is share of the Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. Bokeelia is still home to one of Lee County’s first opportunist families, the Padillas, who came by habit of Cayo Costa.

Bokeelia is located in western Lee County at 26°41′17″N 82°8′43″W / 26.68806°N 82.14528°W / 26.68806; -82.14528 (26.687960, -82.145249). It sits at the northern subside of Pine Island and is bordered by water upon three sides: Pine Island Sound to the west, Charlotte Harbor to the north, and Matlacha Pass to the east. Bokeelia is bordered to the south by the unincorporated communities of Pineland and Pine Island Center.

The indigenous settlement of Bokeelia is on Bokeelia Island, connected to Pine Island by a sharp bridge on Stringfellow Road (County Road 767), the main road through the community, and which ends at the town’s rushed Main Street along Charlotte Harbor. To the south Stringfellow Road leads 7 miles (11 km) to Pine Island Center, from where County Road 78 leads west to Cape Coral upon the mainland.