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Quick  Facts  About  Georgia

SOME INTERESTING TIDBITS ABOUT THE STATE OF GEORGIA

• Georgia's population is just over 9 million.
• Gainesville, Georgia likes to call itself "the Chicken Capital of the World." And it isn't an empty boast; within city limits it's illegal to eat chicken with a fork.
• Athens is the site of the first university in America that is chartered and supported by public money.
• Georgia, founded by English noblemen James Oglethorpe as a colony, is named after King George II.
• Georgia state law makes it a punishable offense to use profanity in front of a dead body.

The largest state in the southeast, Georgia is typical of the changing South with an ever-increasing industrial development. Atlanta, largest city in the state, is the communications and transportation center for the Southeast and the area's chief distributor of goods.

Georgia was admitted to United States as a State on March 3, 1845 as the 4th State

GOVERNMENT AND POPULATION DATA

• Form of Government - Elected Governor and Legislature
• Current Governor - Sonny Perdue, R (until Jan. 2011)
• 13 U.S. Congressional Districts and Representatives
• 2 U.S. Senators
    -  Saxby Chambliss (R) (until Jan. 2009)
    -  Johnny Isakson (R) (until Jan. 2011)
• Capital - Atlanta
• Population - Just Over 9 Million
• State Flower - Cherokee Rose
• State Nickname - The "Peach" State

GEOGRPAHY OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA

• Total Area of the State - 59,425 Square Miles
    -  22nd Largest State in the U.S. in Total Area
• Land Area - 57,906 Square Miles
• Total Water Area - 1,519 Square Miles

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