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1 day ago · Last Updated: May 27, 2024 • Article History. flag of Georgia. Seal of Georgia. Georgia: state bird. Georgia: state flower. Capital: Atlanta. Population: (2020) 10,711,908; (2023 est.) 11,029,227. Governor: Brian Kemp (Republican) Date Of Admission: January 2, 1788 2. U.S. Senators: Raphael Warnock (Democrat) Jon Ossoff (Democrat) Recent News.
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3 days ago · Georgia has 100 miles (160 km) of coastline along the Atlantic Ocean. The Province of Georgia was created in 1732 and first settled in 1733 with the founding of Savannah. Georgia became a British royal colony in 1752. It was the last and southernmost of the original Thirteen Colonies to be established.
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4 days ago · Lookout Mountain, narrow southwestern ridge of the Cumberland Plateau and a segment of the Appalachian Mountains, U.S., extending south-southwestward for 75 miles (120 km), from Moccasin Bend, Tennessee, on the Tennessee River across northwestern Georgia to Gadsden, Alabama.
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5 days ago · French colonization. The first French settlement in what is now the Southern United States was Fort Caroline, located in what is now Jacksonville, Florida, in 1562. It was established as a haven for the Huguenots and was destroyed by the Spanish in 1565. Later French arrived from the north.
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