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Northwest Georgia is a region of the state of Georgia in the United States. [1] It includes 12 counties (listed in the section below), which at the 2010 census had a combined population of 753,032. Northwest Georgia includes some of the southernmost portions of the Appalachian Mountains , as opposed to Northeast Georgia , which holds the ...
The Northwest Territories has four communities incorporated as towns. [3] Hay River is the territory's largest town by population and land area with 3,169 residents and 122.4 km 2 (47.3 sq mi) respectively. [2] Norman Wells is the smallest town by population at 673 residents while Inuvik is the smallest by land area at 62.68 km 2 (24.20 sq mi). [2]
Because of the County Unit System, later declared unconstitutional, new counties, no matter the population, had at least one representative in the state house, keeping political power in rural areas. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The last new county to be established in Georgia was Peach County , founded in 1924.
The 46 United States statistical areas and 159 counties of the State of Georgia [a]; Combined statistical area [1] 2023 population (est.) [3] Core-based statistical area [1] ...
Its western boundary is approximately 50 km (31 mi) west of the Mackenzie Highway (NWT Highway 1), and its eastern boundary is approximately halfway through Wood Buffalo National Park. Its claimed land slightly overlaps in the west with claims by the Kaʼaʼgee Tu Band of the Dehcho First Nations. Half of its population lives in Hay River Reserve.
The following is a list of the 3,143 counties and county-equivalents in the 50 states and District of Columbia sorted by U.S. state, plus an additional 100 county-equivalents in the U.S. territories sorted by territory.
In 1874, NWT ceded land to the expansion of the province of Ontario. In 1876, NWT ceded land to the creation of District of Keewatin. In 1880, NWT gained the British Arctic Territories, transferred to Canada from the United Kingdom. In 1881, NWT ceded land to the expansion of Manitoba. In 1881, Canada had 2 territories and 7 provinces
Walker County is a county in the Northwest region of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 67,654, [1] down from 68,756 in 2010. [2] The county seat is LaFayette. [3] The county was created on December 18, 1833, from land formerly belonging to the Cherokee Indian Nation.