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Albany, Georgia
Albany, Georgia, is a city in southwest Georgia and the county seat of Dougherty County, founded by Nelson Tift in 1836 as a Flint River cotton port.
Alpharetta, Georgia
Alpharetta, Georgia: a Fulton County city in metro Atlanta, incorporated 1858 as seat of old Milton County, population 65,818 (2020), now a major Southeast technology hub with about 700 tech firms.
Athens, Georgia
Athens, Georgia: consolidated city-county (Athens-Clarke County) in northeast Georgia, home of the University of Georgia (chartered 1785) and the B-52s/R.E.M. music scene; population about 128,600.
Atlanta
Atlanta, capital and largest city of Georgia and seat of Fulton County, founded 1837 as the railroad Terminus. 2020 population 498,715; metro over 6 million; rebuilt after 1864 burning; major Southeast hub facing slowing growth and sprawl limits.
Augusta, Georgia
Augusta, Georgia: consolidated city-county seat of Richmond County on the Savannah River, founded 1736 by Oglethorpe, Georgia's second-largest city (201,999), home of the Masters Tournament and Fort Gordon.
Brunswick, Georgia
Brunswick, Georgia: coastal city and Glynn County seat, founded 1771, population 15,210 (2020). Home to the Port of Brunswick, the busiest U.S. automobile seaport in 2024 and 2025, and gateway to the Golden Isles.
Cartersville, Georgia
Cartersville, Georgia: county seat of Bartow County, about 45 miles northwest of Atlanta on I-75, named for Farish Carter, incorporated 1850, population 23,187 (2020), council-manager government since 1917 with city-owned utilities.
College Park, Georgia
College Park, Georgia: city in Fulton and Clayton counties near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport; founded as Manchester in 1890, renamed 1895; population 13,930 (2020); home to Six West redevelopment and a large National Register historic district.
Columbus, Georgia
Columbus, Georgia: consolidated city-county seat of Muscogee County on the Chattahoochee River, founded 1828, first Georgia consolidated government (1971), population about 202,000, home to the world's longest urban whitewater course and Fort Moore.
Conyers, Georgia
Conyers, Georgia: county seat and only incorporated city of Rockdale County, about 24 miles east of Atlanta. Founded as Conyers Station railroad depot, incorporated 1854; population 20,377 (2025 estimate); home to the Georgia International Horse Park.
Covington, Georgia
Covington, Georgia, county seat of Newton County about 30 miles east of Atlanta, founded 1822 as Newtonsborough and renamed for War of 1812 hero Leonard Covington; known for its 1885 courthouse square, historic district, and film tourism from The Vampire Diaries and The Dukes of Hazzard.
Cumming, Georgia
Cumming, Georgia: county seat of Forsyth County, about 40 miles north of Atlanta. Founded 1833 on 1832 Cherokee land lottery lots, incorporated December 1834, named for War of 1812 colonel William Cumming; population 7,318 in 2020.
Dalton, Georgia
Dalton, Georgia, county seat of Whitfield County, is the Carpet Capital of the World, home to Shaw and Mohawk Industries, founded as Cross Plains in 1847 on the Western and Atlantic Railroad, with a majority-Hispanic population of about 35,000.
Decatur, Georgia
Decatur, Georgia: DeKalb County seat incorporated December 10, 1823, named for Commodore Stephen Decatur; second-oldest metro Atlanta municipality, six miles east of downtown, commission-manager government, independent schools, 2020 population 24,928.
Duluth, Georgia
Duluth, Georgia, a Gwinnett County city of about 31,873 (2020) northeast of Atlanta, founded as Howell's Cross Roads in 1821 and renamed in 1873 after Duluth, Minnesota.
Gainesville, Georgia
Gainesville, Georgia, seat of Hall County, chartered 1821 as Mule Camp Springs and renamed for Gen. Edmund P. Gaines. Poultry Capital of the World on Lake Lanier, 52 miles northeast of Atlanta; 2020 census population 42,296.
Helen, Georgia
Helen, Georgia: small White County city on the upper Chattahoochee River, remodeled in 1968–1972 into a Bavarian alpine village. Third most visited destination in Georgia; known for tubing, Oktoberfest, waterfalls, and wineries.
Kennesaw, Georgia
Kennesaw, Georgia (formerly Big Shanty), a Cobb County city of about 33,000-38,000 in metro Atlanta, founded in the 1830s on the Western and Atlantic Railroad, site of the 1862 Great Locomotive Chase and home of the General locomotive at the Southern Museum.
Lawrenceville, Georgia
Lawrenceville, Georgia, county seat of Gwinnett County, incorporated December 15, 1821 and named for Captain James Lawrence. Oldest city in Gwinnett, second oldest in metro Atlanta; about 30,600 residents (2020), home to Georgia Gwinnett College.
Macon, Georgia
Macon, Georgia: seat of Bibb County, fourth-largest Georgia city, consolidated with Bibb County in 2014 as Macon-Bibb County. Fall-line city on the Ocmulgee River at I-75/I-16, population 157,346 (2020), known for soul music heritage and Ocmulgee Mounds.
Marietta, Georgia
Marietta, Georgia: county seat of Cobb County, 15 miles northwest of Atlanta; chartered 1834, named for Thomas W. Cobb's wife, shaped by the Western & Atlantic Railroad, the 1864 Atlanta Campaign, and the Lockheed aircraft plant.
Milledgeville, Georgia
Milledgeville, GA, is a city in central Georgia and the seat of Baldwin County; it served as Georgia's fourth capital from 1804 to 1868, including the Civil War years.
Newnan, Georgia
Newnan, Georgia: county seat of Coweta County, 38 miles southwest of Atlanta; incorporated 1828, named for Daniel Newnan; historic "City of Homes" with six National Register districts, about 45,900 residents in 2025.
Plains, Georgia
Plains, Georgia, a small Sumter County town established in the 1880s, is the birthplace, lifelong home, and burial place of President Jimmy Carter and centers on the Jimmy Carter National Historical Park and peanut-farming heritage.
Rome, Georgia
Rome, Georgia: county seat of Floyd County, founded 1834 at the Etowah-Oostanaula confluence forming the Coosa, on the Cherokee settlement Head of Coosa; 37,713 residents (2020), burned in the Civil War, healthcare hub of northwest Georgia.
Roswell, Georgia
Roswell, Georgia: Fulton County city about 20 miles north of Atlanta on the Chattahoochee River; founded as an 1839 textile mill town by Roswell King, now about 91,500 residents.
Sandy Springs, Georgia
Sandy Springs, Georgia: Fulton County city incorporated December 1, 2005, first new Georgia city since 1959; known for pioneering public-private partnership government; 2020 population 108,080.
Savannah, Georgia
Savannah, Georgia: Georgia's oldest city, founded 1733 by James Oglethorpe as America's first planned city with 22 surviving squares; a major container port, population about 149,000, council-manager government, and high coastal flood risk.
Smyrna, Georgia
Smyrna, Georgia, the "Jonquil City," is a Cobb County city about 10 miles northwest of Atlanta, incorporated in 1872, with a 2020 census population of 55,663 and an ongoing downtown redevelopment.
South Fulton, Georgia
South Fulton, Georgia, also called the City of South Fulton, is a city incorporated in 2017 from unincorporated southwestern Fulton County near Atlanta, with 107,436 residents in 2020, a mayor-council-manager government, and a 90.6 percent Black population.