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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.
The map to the right shows the county boundaries for all 159 counties in Georgia. 149 of the 159 counties in the state are governed by a committee made of between three and eleven commissioners [5] while the other 10 counties are overseen by a single commissioner. All commissioners are elected by the voters of their county for terms that range ...
Three county seats have later become the county seats of other counties: Pond Town was the temporary county seat of Lee County, Georgia when the county was first established from Muscogee (Creek) Nation lands in 1826. The county was very large and otherwise lacked European-American settlement. It was replaced in 1828.
Map of the United States with Georgia highlighted. Georgia is a state located in the Southern United States.According to the 2010 United States census, Georgia was the 8th most populous state with 9,688,681 inhabitants and the 21st largest by land area spanning 57,513.49 square miles (148,959.3 km 2) of land. [1]
The majority of Georgia’s 159 counties saw a Republican shift in this year’s election, with Webster County seeing the largest change at over 10.5 points.
The U.S. State of Georgia currently has 46 statistical areas that have been delineated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated 7 combined statistical areas, 15 metropolitan statistical areas, and 24 micropolitan statistical areas within Georgia. [1]
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Georgia is the thirty-third-richest (33rd) state in the United States of America, with a median household income of US$46,007 (2011). [ 1 ] Georgia counties ranked by per capita income