Travel Notes: North America: Georgia Travel Notes

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Also known as the Empire State of the South, or the Peach State, Georgia is named after George II of England.

The state capital of Georgia is Atlanta.

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Atlanta, Destination Georgia, Georgia Municipalities, Georgia Travel Guides, Map of Georgia, Savannah.

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Map of Georgia - with TravelNotes Hotel Guide

Zoom in on the map to travel around the state and find where to stay.

About Georgia:
Find out more about Georgia before you travel there. Order tourist brochures and look at where you'd like to stay.

County Map of Georgia:
Colourful map of Georgia showing the location of all 159 counties: Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb, Bleckley, Brantley, Brooks, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Butts, Calhoun, Camden, Candler, Carroll, Catoosa, Charlton, Chatham, Chattahoochee, Chattooga, Cherokee, Clarke, Clay, Clayton, Clinch, Cobb, Coffee, Colquitt, Columbia, Cook, Coweta, Crawford, Crisp, Dade, Dawson, Decatur, DeKalb, Dodge, Dooly, Dougherty, Douglas, Early, Echols, Effingham, Elbert, Emanuel, Evans, Fannin, Fayette, Floyd, Forsyth, Franklin, Fulton, Gilmer, Glascock, Glynn, Gordon, Grady, Greene, Gwinnett, Habersham, Hall, Hancock, Haralson, Harris, Hart, Heard, Henry, Houston, Irwin, Jackson, Jasper, Jeff Davis, Jefferson, Jenkins, Johnson, Jones, Lamar, Lanier, Laurens, Lee, Liberty, Lincoln, Long, Lowndes, Lumpkin, McDuffie, McIntosh, Macon, Madison, Marion, Meriwether, Miller, Mitchell, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Murray, Muscogee, Newton, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Paulding, Peach, Pickens, Pierce, Pike, Polk, Pulaski, Putnam, Quitman, Rabun, Randolph, Richmond, Rockdale, Schley, Screven, Seminole, Spalding, Stephens, Stewart, Sumter, Talbot, Taliaferro, Tattnall, Taylor, Telfair, Terrell, Thomas, Tift, Toombs, Towns, Treutlen, Troup, Turner, Twiggs, Union, Upson, Walker, Walton, Ware, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Webster, Wheeler, White, Whitfield, Wilcox, Wilkes, Wilkinson and Worth.

Destination Georgia

States neighbouring Georgia are: Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina.

Agrirama Georgia:
Georgia's Living History Museum, in Tifton, is a working example of how life was in the state in the late 1800's.

Georgia State Parks and Historic Sites:
Information on all of Georgia's State Parks and Historic sites.

Governor's Mansion:
A virtual tour of the Georgia Governor's Mansion. Also get information and directions to the Mansion.

Tourism in Georgia:
The official tourism site for the state of Georgia has over 3,000 attractions, lodging facilities, and restaurants from all parts of the state of Georgia.

Ocmulgee National Monument, near Macon, has remains of old Native American mounds and villages. While on St. Simon's Island there is a British fort that was built in the 18th century.

For Civil War battle sites, head to the north-western corner of the state where you will find Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park.

The Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park is near Marietta.

A Civil War prisoner-of-war camp is in the Andersonville National Historic Site.

Atlanta

Ted Turner's CNN has made Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthplace into the news capital of the world, and most of America's large corporations have offices here.

Atlanta Restaurants:
Atlanta restaurant guide with menus, ratings and reviews.

State of Georgia:
The state of Georgia's homepage.

16 miles east of Atlanta, Stone Mountain National Park is interesting for the giant equestrian figures of the Confederate leaders Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Jefferson Davis -- measuring 90ft. x 190ft. -- carved into the granite face.

Accommodation in Atlanta

Hotels in Atlanta, Georgia:
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Savannah

For a taste of the ocean, head out to Savannah. The restored houses of one of the oldest towns in the United States also make Savannah a very pleasant place to visit, even if you're a landlubber.