List of municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state)

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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 km²) of land.^[1] Georgia is divided into 159 counties and contains 535 municipalities consisting of cities, towns, consolidated city-counties, and consolidated cities.^{[2] [3]}

There is no legal difference in Georgia between cities and towns.^[4] Eight municipalities have merged with their counties to form consolidated city-counties: Athens with Clarke County, Augusta with Richmond County, Columbus with Muscogee County, Cusseta with Chattahoochee County, Georgetown with Quitman County, Macon with Bibb County, Statenville with Echols County, and Webster County unified government with Webster County. Athens and Augusta also have municipalities independent of the consolidated governments and are considered consolidated cities.^[2]

The largest municipality by population in Georgia is Atlanta, with 498,715 residents, and the smallest municipality by population is Aldora, with 0 residents, although the actual estimated population is at 103, due to a "0% self-response rate".^[3] The largest municipality by land area is Augusta, a consolidated city-county, which spans 302.47 sq mi (783.4 km²), and Edge Hill and Santa Claus are tied for the smallest, at 0.18 sq mi (0.47 km²) each.^[1][a]

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