Muscogee County, Georgia

Muscogee County
County
Columbus Consolidated Government Center
Location within the U.S. state of Georgia
Georgia's location within the U.S.
Coordinates: 32°31′N 84°52′W / 32.51°N 84.87°W / 32.51; -84.87
Country	United States
State	Georgia
Founded	June 9, 1826; 198 years ago (1826)
Named for	Muscogee people
Seat	Columbus
Largest city	Columbus
Area
• Total	221 sq mi (570 km2)
• Land	216 sq mi (560 km2)
• Water	4.6 sq mi (12 km2)  2.1%
Population  (2020)
• Total	206,922
• Density	958/sq mi (370/km2)
Time zone	UTC−5 (Eastern)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Congressional districts	2nd, 3rd
Website	columbusga.gov

Muscogee County is a county located on the central western border of the U.S. state of Georgia named after the Muscogee that originally inhabited the land with its western border with the state of Alabama that is formed by the Chattahoochee River. As of the 2020 census, the population was 206,922.^[1] Its county seat and only city is Columbus,^[2] with which it has been a consolidated city-county since the beginning of 1971.

Muscogee County is part of the Columbus, GA–AL, metropolitan statistical area.

The only other city in the county was Bibb City, a company town that disincorporated in December 2000, two years after its mill closed permanently. Fort Moore (formerly Fort Benning), a large Army installation, takes up nearly one quarter of the county and extends into Chattahoochee County; it generates considerable economic power in the region.