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Boynton Beach is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. Boynton Beach is a principal city of the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. Despite the city's name, it has no beachfront; rather, it is located across the Intracoastal Waterway from the oceanfront municipalities of Ocean Ridge and Briny Breezes. The city has a total area of 16.25 square miles, of which 15.88 square miles is land and .37 square miles is water.