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Georgia has two principal meanings:

  • Georgia (country)
    Georgia (country)

    Georgia is a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region, located at the dividing line between Europe and Asia. It is bordered by the Russia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, Armenia to the south, and Turkey to the southwest....
  • Georgia (U.S. state)
    Georgia (U.S. state)

    Georgia is a U.S. state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against United Kingdom rule in the American Revolution....


Georgia may also refer to:

Places

  • Georgia (country)
    Georgia (country)

    Georgia is a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region, located at the dividing line between Europe and Asia. It is bordered by the Russia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, Armenia to the south, and Turkey to the southwest....
    , previously known as:
    • Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (1921–1991), part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
    • Democratic Republic of Georgia
      Democratic Republic of Georgia

      The Democratic Republic of Georgia , 1918?1921, was the first modern establishment of a Republic of Georgia .The DRG was created after the collapse of the Russian Empire that began with the Russian Revolution of 1917....
       (1918–1921)
    • Georgian Kingdom, various earlier Georgian kingdoms and states - see History of Georgia
      History of Georgia (country)

      The history of Georgia began with the rise of the early Georgian states of Colchis and Caucasian Iberia, which in Circa1000 BC formed the Georgian civilization and achieved its renaissance and golden age in the twelfth through thirteenth centuries....
      • Monarchism of Georgia, history of, and proposals to restore, the Georgian monarchy
  • Georgia (U.S. state)
    Georgia (U.S. state)

    Georgia is a U.S. state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against United Kingdom rule in the American Revolution....
    , previously known as:
    • Province of Georgia
      Province of Georgia

      The Province of Georgia was one of the Southern colonies in British North America. It was the last of the Thirteen original colonies established by Kingdom of Great Britain in what later became the United States....
       (1732–1776)
  • Georgia, Indiana
    Georgia, Indiana

    Georgia is an unincorporated community in Spice Valley Township, Lawrence County, Indiana, Lawrence County, Indiana, Indiana....
    , United States
  • Georgia, Vermont
    Georgia, Vermont

    Georgia is a New England town in Franklin County, Vermont, Vermont, United States. The population was 4,375 at the 2000 United States Census....
    , United States
  • Georgia Avenue
    Georgia Avenue

    Georgia Avenue is a major north-south artery in Northwest, Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. and Montgomery County, Maryland. Within the District of Columbia, Georgia Avenue is also U.S....
    , in Washington, DC, United States
  • Georgia Street
    Georgia Street

    Georgia Street, more officially West Georgia Street or Georgia, is arguably the most important street in Downtown Vancouver. It serves as the one of the primary streets for the financial and central business districts and is the major transportation corridor connecting downtown Vancouver with the North Shore by way of the Lions...
    , in Vancouver, Canada
  • New Georgia
    New Georgia

    New Georgia is the largest island of the Western Province of the Solomon Islands. It is in the New Georgia Group, an archipelago including most of the other larger islands in the province....
    , Solomon Islands
  • South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
    South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

    South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is a British overseas territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. It is a remote and inhospitable collection of islands, consisting of South Georgia ? which measures approximately by and is by far the largest island in the territory ? and a chain of smaller islands known as the South Sand...
    , British overseas territory
  • Strait of Georgia
    Strait of Georgia

    The Strait of Georgia or the Georgia Strait , is a strait between Vancouver Island and the mainland Pacific coast of British Columbia, Canada....
    , British Columbia, Canada


Media and entertainment

  • Georgia (1988 film)
    Georgia (1988 film)

    Georgia is a 1988 Australian thriller film directed by Ben Lewin starring Judy Davis and John Bach.Judy Davis plays the two roles of a mother, Georgia, and her daughter Nina....
    , Australian thriller
  • Georgia (1995 film)
    Georgia (1995 film)

    Georgia is a 1995 American independent movie starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Mare Winningham. In the film, Leigh played Sadie Flood, a Punk rocky barroom singer who has a complicated, jealous but loving relationship with her older sister, Georgia, played by Winningham....
    , American independent drama
  • "Georgia" (song), 2005 song by Field Mob
  • "Georgia on My Mind"
    Georgia on My Mind

    "Georgia on My Mind" is a song written in 1930 by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell . It is the official List of U.S. state songs of the United States state of Georgia ....
    , 1930 song by Hoagy Carmichael
  • "Georgia", 2007 song by Hanson, on the album The Walk
    The Walk (Hanson album)

    The Walk is an album by American pop rock group Hanson . It was released on July 24, 2007 in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, and on April 30, 2007 in the UK and on February 21, 2007 in Japan....


Ships

  • CSS Georgia (battery)
    CSS Georgia (battery)

    CSS Georgia, also known as State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram, was an ironclad floating artillery battery built at Savannah, Georgia, Georgia in 1862–1863....
    , floating battery, commissioned 1863
  • CSS Georgia (cruiser)
    CSS Georgia (cruiser)

    CSS Georgia was built in 1862 as the fast merchantman Japan. The Confederate States Government purchased her at Dumbarton, Scotland, in March 1863....
    , merchantman, commissioned 1863
  • SS Georgia
    SS Georgia

    The SS Georgia was a tanker lost off the coast of Norfolk, England at Haisborough Sands in 1927.It began life as hull No 82 in the shipyard of the Northrop Grumman Newport News, Virginia in the United States....
    , oil tanker, commissioned 1908
  • USS Georgia (BB-15)
    USS Georgia (BB-15)

    The first USS Georgia was a United States Navy .She was launched by the Bath Iron Works of Bath, Maine, 11 October 1904, sponsored by Miss Stella Tate, sister of Georgia Congressman Farish Carter Tate and commissioned at Boston Navy Yard 24 September 1906, Captain R....
    , battleship, commissioned 1906
  • USS Georgia (SSGN-729)
    USS Georgia (SSGN-729)

    USS Georgia , a Ohio class submarine, is the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Georgia . The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut on 20 February 1976 and her keel was laid down on 7 April 1979....
    , submarine, commissioned 1984


Other uses

  • Georgia (drink)
    Georgia (drink)

    File:Canned coffee view 02.jpg is the name of a popular brand of coffee-flavored beverages sold by The Coca-Cola Company. It was launched in 1975 by Coca-Cola Company, a Japanese subsidiary of the company....
  • Georgia (name)
    Georgia (name)

    Georgia is a female given name derived from the Greek for "farmer". The Italian cognate is Giorgia.Persons bearing the name include:* Georgia of Clermont , saint, nun, and hermitess...
    , female given name
  • Georgia (typeface)
    Georgia (typeface)

    Georgia is a serif#Transitional typeface designed in 1993 by Matthew Carter and hinted by Tom Rickner for the Microsoft, as the serif companion to the first Microsoft sans serif screen font, Verdana....


See also

  • George (disambiguation)
  • Georgian (disambiguation)