The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the U.S. state of Georgia:

Georgia Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States Georgia may also refer to: Places Historical states and entities * Related to the ...

– ninth most populous of the 50 states of the

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. Georgia borders the

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in the

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. Georgia was the fourth of the original 13 states to approve the Constitution of the United States of America on January 2, 1788. Georgia joined the

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during the

American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by Names of the American Civil War, other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union (American Civil War), Union ("the North") and t ...

from 1861 to 1865, and was readmitted to the Union in 1870.

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State of Georgia Georgia is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee and North Carolina; to the northeast by South Carolina; to the southeast by the Atlantic Ocean; to the south by Florida; and to the west ...

** Abbreviations and name codes *** Postal symbol: GA *** ISO 3166-2 code: US-GA ***

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second-level domain:

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** Nicknames ***

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State (previously used on license plates) *** *** Empire State of the South — Refers to economic leadership *** Yankee-land of the South: Similarly to the above nickname, "Yankee-land of the South" speaks to industrial and economic development in the south. This nickname may be used in a derogatory sense. *** Goober State — Refers to peanuts, the official state crop. * Adjectivals:

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: Georgian

Geography of Georgia

* Georgia (U.S. state) is: a

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, a

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of the United States of America * Location **

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Anglo America Anglo-America most often refers to a region in the Americas in which English is the main language and British culture and the British Empire have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact."Anglo-America", vol. 1, Micro ...

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Northern America Northern America is the northernmost subregion of North America. The boundaries may be drawn slightly differently. In one definition, it lies directly north of Middle America (including the Caribbean and Central America).Gonzalez, Joseph. 20 ...

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Contiguous United States The contiguous United States (officially the conterminous United States) consists of the 48 adjoining U.S. states and the Federal District of the United States of America. The term excludes the only two non-contiguous states, Alaska and Hawaii ...

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Eastern United States The Eastern United States, commonly referred to as the American East, Eastern America, or simply the East, is the region of the United States to the east of the Mississippi River. In some cases the term may refer to a smaller area or the East C ...

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South Atlantic States The South Atlantic United States form one of the nine Census Bureau Divisions within the United States that are recognized by the United States Census Bureau. This region, U.S. Census Bureau Region 3, Division 5, corresponds to the South (states ...

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Southern United States The Southern United States (sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, or simply the South) is a geographic and cultural region of the United States of America. It is between the Atlantic Ocean ...

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Deep South The Deep South or the Lower South is a cultural and geographic subregion in the Southern United States. The term was first used to describe the states most dependent on plantations and slavery prior to the American Civil War. Following the wa ...

* Population of Georgia (U.S. state): 10,711,908 (2020 U.S. Census) * Area of Georgia (U.S. state): * Atlas of Georgia (U.S. state)

Places in Georgia

* Historic places in Georgia (U.S. state) ** Abandoned communities in Georgia (U.S. state) **

Ghost towns in Georgia (U.S. state) A ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that is believed to be able to appear to the living. In ghostlore, descriptions of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to rea ...

National Historic Landmarks in Georgia (U.S. state) This is a List of National Historic Landmarks in Georgia. The United States National Historic Landmark program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service, and recognizes structures, districts, objects, and similar resources acco ...

** National Register of Historic Places listings in Georgia (U.S. state) *** Bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state) * National Natural Landmarks in Georgia * National parks in Georgia * State parks in Georgia (U.S. state)

Environment of Georgia

* Climate of Georgia (U.S. state) *

Natural history of Georgia (U.S. state) The natural history of Georgia covers many plant and animal species. The humid subtropical climate of Georgia influences its plant and animal life. Flora The state of Georgia has approximately 250 tree species and 58 protected plants. Georgia's ...

* Geology of Georgia (U.S. state) * Protected areas in Georgia (U.S. state) ** National Wildlife Refuges in Georgia (U.S. state) ** State forests of Georgia (U.S. state) *

Superfund sites in Georgia (U.S. state) Superfund is a United States federal environmental remediation program established by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA). The program is administered by the Environmental Protection Agen ...

* Wildlife of Georgia (U.S. state) **

Flora of Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee and North Carolina; to the northeast by South Carolina; to the southeast by the Atlantic Ocean; to the south by Florida; and to the west by ...

*** List of trees of Georgia (U.S. state) ** Fauna of Georgia (U.S. state) *** Birds of Georgia (U.S. state) *** Mammals of Georgia (U.S. state) *** Reptiles **** Snakes of Georgia (U.S. state) *** Insects **** Butterflies of Georgia (U.S. state)

Natural geographic features of Georgia

* Rivers of Georgia (U.S. state)

Administrative divisions of Georgia

* The 159 counties of the state of Georgia ** Municipalities in the state of Georgia *** Cities in the state of Georgia **** Capital of the state of Georgia:

Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 ...

**** City nicknames in the state of Georgia **** Sister cities of the state of Georgia *** Towns in the state of Georgia *** Unincorporated communities in the state of Georgia ** Census-designated places in the state of Georgia

Demography of Georgia

Government and politics of Georgia

* Form of government: U.S. state government * United States congressional delegations from Georgia (U.S. state) * Georgia (U.S. state) State Capitol * Elections in Georgia (U.S. state) ** Electoral reform in Georgia (U.S. state) *

Political party strength in Georgia (U.S. state) The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia: *List of governors of Georgia, Governor *Lieutenant Governor of Georgia, Lieutenant Governor *Georgia Secretary of State, Secretary of ...

Branches of the government of Georgia

Executive branch of the government of Georgia

* Governor of Georgia (U.S. state) ** Lieutenant Governor of Georgia (U.S. state) **

Secretary of State of Georgia The Secretary of State of the U.S. state of Georgia is an elected official with a wide variety of responsibilities, including supervising elections and maintaining public records. The office has had a four-year term since 1946. Before 1880, th ...

** State Treasurer of Georgia (U.S. state) * State departments ** Georgia (U.S. state) Department of Transportation

Legislative branch of the government of Georgia

* Georgia General Assembly ( bicameral) **

Upper house An upper house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the lower house.''Bicameralism'' (1997) by George Tsebelis The house formally designated as the upper house is usually smaller and often has more restric ...

: Georgia Senate ** Lower house:

Georgia House of Representatives The Georgia House of Representatives is the lower house of the Georgia General Assembly (the state legislature) of the U.S. state of Georgia. There are currently 180 elected members. Republicans have had a majority in the chamber since 2005. ...

Judicial branch of the government of Georgia

Courts of Georgia * Supreme Court of Georgia

Law and order in Georgia

Military in Georgia

* Georgia (U.S. state) Air National Guard * Georgia (U.S. state) Army National Guard

Local government in Georgia

History of Georgia

* History of Georgia * Timeline of Georgia

History of Georgia, by period

* Prehistory of the state of Georgia *

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colony of

Florida Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to ...

, 1565–1763 * French colony of Louisiane, 1699–1763 *

British British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, ...

Colony of Georgia In modern parlance, a colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule. Though dominated by the foreign colonizers, colonies remain separate from the administration of the original country of the colonizers, the '' metropolitan state'' ...

, 1732–1755 **

History of slavery in Georgia Slavery in Georgia is known to have been practiced by European colonists. During the colonial era, the practice of slavery in Georgia soon became surpassed by industrial-scale plantation slavery. The colony of the Province of Georgia under James ...

* King George's War, 1739–1748 ** Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle of 1748 *

French and Indian War The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes. At the ...

, 1754–1763 ** Treaty of Fontainebleau of 1762 ** Treaty of Paris of 1763 *

Province of Georgia A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions out ...

, 1755–1776 *

Indian Reserve In Canada, an Indian reserve (french: réserve indienne) is specified by the '' Indian Act'' as a "tract of land, the legal title to which is vested in Her Majesty, that has been set apart by Her Majesty for the use and benefit of a band." In ...

, 1763–1783 **

Royal Proclamation of 1763 The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George III on 7 October 1763. It followed the Treaty of Paris (1763), which formally ended the Seven Years' War and transferred French territory in North America to Great Britain. The Procla ...

American Revolutionary War The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a major war of the American Revolution. Widely considered as the war that secured the independence of t ...

, April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783 **

United States Declaration of Independence The United States Declaration of Independence, formally The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen States of America, is the pronouncement and founding document adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at Pennsylvania State House ( ...

, July 4, 1776 **

Treaty of Paris Treaty of Paris may refer to one of many treaties signed in Paris, France: Treaties 1200s and 1300s * Treaty of Paris (1229), which ended the Albigensian Crusade * Treaty of Paris (1259), between Henry III of England and Louis IX of France * Trea ...

, September 3, 1783 * State of Georgia, since 1776 ***Fifth state to ratify the

Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was an agreement among the 13 Colonies of the United States of America that served as its first frame of government. It was approved after much debate (between July 1776 and November 1777) by ...

, signed July 9, 1778 **

Cherokee–American wars The Cherokee–American wars, also known as the Chickamauga Wars, were a series of raids, campaigns, ambushes, minor skirmishes, and several full-scale frontier battles in the Old Southwest from 1776 to 1794 between the Cherokee and American se ...

, 1776–1794 **Fourth State to ratify the Constitution of the United States of America on January 2, 1788 ** Treaty of San Lorenzo of 1795 ** Western territorial claims sold 1802 **

War of 1812 The War of 1812 (18 June 1812 – 17 February 1815) was fought by the United States, United States of America and its Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous allies against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom ...

, June 18, 1812 – March 23, 1815 ***

Treaty of Ghent The Treaty of Ghent () was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom. It took effect in February 1815. Both sides signed it on December 24, 1814, in the city of Ghent, United Netherlands (now in ...

, December 24, 1814 ** Creek War, 1813–1814 **

Trail of Tears The Trail of Tears was an ethnic cleansing and forced displacement of approximately 60,000 people of the " Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government. As part of the Indian removal, members of the Cherokee, ...

, 1830–1838 **

Mexican–American War The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the (''United States intervention in Mexico''), was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848. It followed the 1 ...

, April 25, 1846 – February 2, 1848 ***Fifth state to declare secession from the

on January 19, 1861 ***Founding state of the

on February 8, 1861 **

, April 12, 1861 – May 13, 1865 *** Georgia in the American Civil War ****

Battle of Chickamauga The Battle of Chickamauga, fought on September 19–20, 1863, between U.S. and Confederate forces in the American Civil War, marked the end of a Union offensive, the Chickamauga Campaign, in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia. I ...

, September 19–20, 1863 **** Atlanta Campaign, May 7 – September 2, 1864 *****

Battle of Atlanta The Battle of Atlanta was a battle of the Atlanta Campaign fought during the American Civil War on July 22, 1864, just southeast of Atlanta, Georgia. Continuing their summer campaign to seize the important rail and supply hub of Atlanta, Un ...

, July 22, 1864 **** Franklin–Nashville Campaign, October 5 – December 25, 1864 ****

Sherman's March to the Sea Sherman's March to the Sea (also known as the Savannah campaign or simply Sherman's March) was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 until December 21, 1864, by William Tecumseh Sherman, maj ...

, November 15 – December 21, 1864 ** Georgia during Reconstruction, 1865–1870 ****Eleventh former

Confederate state A confederation (also known as a confederacy or league) is a union of sovereign groups or states united for purposes of common action. Usually created by a treaty, confederations of states tend to be established for dealing with critical issu ...

readmitted to the

on July 15, 1870 **

Civil Rights Movement The civil rights movement was a nonviolent social and political movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized institutional racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement throughout the Unite ...

from December 1, 1955, to January 20, 1969 ***

Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist, one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 ...

awarded

Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiolog ...

on December 10, 1964 **

Jimmy Carter James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1 ...

becomes 39th

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on January 20, 1977

History of Georgia, by region

History of Atlanta The history of Atlanta dates back to 1836, when Georgia decided to build a railroad to the U.S. Midwest and a location was chosen to be the line's terminus. The stake marking the founding of "Terminus" was driven into the ground in 1837 (call ...

* History of Augusta, Georgia * History of Brunswick, Georgia *

History of Savannah, Georgia The city of Savannah, Georgia, the largest city and the county seat of Chatham County, Georgia, was established in 1733 and was the first colonial and state capital of Georgia. It is known as Georgia's first planned city and attracts millions of ...

History of Georgia, by subject

* History of marriage in Georgia (U.S. state) *

* History of slavery in Georgia (U.S. state) * History of universities in Georgia ** History of Georgia Tech ** History of North Georgia College and State University

Culture of Georgia

* Cuisine of Georgia (U.S. state) * Museums in Georgia (U.S. state) * Religion in the State of Georgia ** The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Georgia (U.S. state) ** Episcopal Diocese of Georgia (U.S. state) ** Georgia District Church of the Nazarene * Scouting in Georgia (U.S. state) * State symbols of Georgia ** Flag of the State of Georgia ** Great Seal of the State of Georgia Seal of Georgia

The arts in Georgia

* Music of Georgia (U.S. state) * Theater in Georgia (U.S. state)

Sports in Georgia

* Professional sports teams in Georgia (U.S. state)

Economy and infrastructure of Georgia

* Communications in Georgia (U.S. state) ** Newspapers in Georgia (U.S. state) ** Radio stations in Georgia (U.S. state) **

Television stations in Georgia (U.S. state) Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication Media (communication), medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of Transmission (telecommunications), television tra ...

* Energy in Georgia (U.S. state) * Health care in Georgia (U.S. state) ** Hospitals in Georgia (U.S. state) *

Transportation in Georgia (U.S. state) The transportation system of Georgia is a cooperation of complex systems of infrastructure comprising over 1,200 miles (1,900 km) of interstates and more than 120 airports and airbases serving a regional population of 59,425 people. Back ...

** Bicycle routes in Georgia (U.S. state) ** Airports in Georgia (U.S. state) ** Rail transport in Georgia (U.S. state) ** Roads in Georgia (U.S. state) *** U.S. Highways in Georgia (U.S. state) *** Interstate Highways in Georgia (U.S. state) ***

State highways in Georgia (U.S. state) State may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Literature * ''State Magazine'', a monthly magazine published by the U.S. Department of State * ''The State'' (newspaper), a daily newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, United States * ''Our S ...

* Water in Georgia (U.S. state)

Education in Georgia

* Schools in Georgia (U.S. state) ** School districts in Georgia (U.S. state) *** High schools in Georgia (U.S. state) ** Private schools in Georgia (U.S. state) ** Colleges and universities in Georgia (U.S. state) ***

University of Georgia , mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things." , establ ...

*** Georgia Institute of Technology ***

University of West Georgia The University of West Georgia is a public university in Carrollton, Georgia. The university offers a satellite campus in Newnan, Georgia, select classes at its Douglasville Center, and off-campus Museum Studies classes at the Atlanta History Ce ...

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General reference

Geography of Georgia

Places in Georgia

Environment of Georgia

Natural geographic features of Georgia

Administrative divisions of Georgia

Demography of Georgia

Government and politics of Georgia

Branches of the government of Georgia

Executive branch of the government of Georgia

Legislative branch of the government of Georgia

Judicial branch of the government of Georgia

Law and order in Georgia

Military in Georgia

Local government in Georgia

History of Georgia

History of Georgia, by period

History of Georgia, by region

History of Georgia, by subject

Culture of Georgia

The arts in Georgia

Sports in Georgia

Economy and infrastructure of Georgia

Education in Georgia

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