Miami Beach is a single urban administrative division.
The municipality is located on natural and man-made barrier islands between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay , the latter of which separates the Beach from Miami .	municipality	municipality	man-made	artificial island	Atlantic Ocean	Atlantic Ocean	Biscayne Bay	Biscayne Bay	Miami	Miami
A municipality is usually a single urban administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and state laws to which it is subordinate .	urban	Urban area	administrative division	administrative division	corporate	Municipal corporation	jurisdiction	jurisdiction (area)
