Georgia Profile

It is bordered by Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, and Alabama; the Atlantic Ocean lies to the southeast. The last of the original 13 English colonies, Georgia covers 58,930 sq mi (152,629 sq km) and is the largest state east of the Mississippi River; its capital is Atlanta. The area was inhabited by the Creek and Cherokee Indians when Spanish missionaries arrived in the 16th century. English settlement began in 1733 at Savannah when James Oglethorpe established a refuge for debtors. European settlement accelerated after the American Revolution, and the last of the Indians were forcibly removed in the 1830s. Georgia seceded from the Union in 1861, and the American Civil War was particularly hard on the state. It was the last former Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union in 1870. Its landscape sweeps from the Blue Ridge in the north to the Okefenokee Swamp (which it shares with Florida) in the south. For most of the 19th century it was the capital of the cotton empire of the South; in the 20th century industry predominated. The state's population grew throughout the 20th century, with Atlanta especially attracting national corporations.
Georgia Statistics
| Population, 2007 estimate | 9,544,750 |
| Population, percent change, April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2007 | 16.6% |
| Housing units, 2007 | 3,961,474 |
| Median household income, 2007 | $49,080 |
| Land area, 2000 (square miles) | 57,906.14 |
| Persons per square mile, 2000 | 141.4 |
Georgia Links
There's more information than I could possibly list here but I want to provide links to further your investigation if you so choose. So, here's a link the Official State Home Page of Georgia. The official tourism Web site of Georgia is one of the best one's I've seen. Well done!
Weather information is also available by cities. Just visit Georgia Weather - Average Temperatures and Rainfall and then click on the name of the city you are interested in to find data for that specific city. And what state profile would be complete without a link to their Top Attractions and Oddities?!?
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Athens
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Atlanta
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Augusta
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Columbus
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Macon
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North Georgia
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Savannah
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