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Pages in category "Counties in the Atlanta metropolitan area" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The proliferation of counties in Georgia led to multiple state constitutional amendments attempting to limit the number of counties. The most recent such amendment, ratified in 1945, limited the number to 159 counties, although there had been 161 counties from 1924 to 1931.
Metro Atlanta, designated by the United States Office of Management and Budget as the Atlanta–Sandy Springs–Roswell metropolitan statistical area, is the most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of Georgia and the sixth-largest in the United States, based on the July 1, 2023 metropolitan area population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.
As of 2023, the largest of these is the Atlanta--Athens-Clarke County--Sandy Springs, GA-AL CSA, encompassing 42 counties in Georgia and one in Alabama, anchored by Georgia's capital and largest city, Atlanta.
Atlanta is the largest city in Fulton County, occupying the county's narrow center section and thus geographically dividing the county's northern and southern portions. Atlanta's last major annexation in 1952 brought over 118 square miles (310 km 2 ) into the city, including the affluent suburb of Buckhead .
Populated places in the Atlanta metropolitan area by county (29 C) B. Geography of Barrow County, Georgia (3 C) ... Geography of Walton County, Georgia (3 C)
Central Georgia is an eleven-county region in ... Houston County is located 75 miles south of the Atlanta ... "Map of Georgia Cities - Georgia Road Map". geology.com ...
Gwinnett County (/ ɡ w ɪ ˈ n ɛ t / gwih-NEHT) is located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. [2] It forms part of the Atlanta metropolitan area, being located about 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Atlanta city limits. In 2020, the population was 957,062, making it the second-most populous county in Georgia (after Fulton ...