Georgia

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Contents 1 Places 2 Media and entertainment 3 Ships 4 Other uses 5 See also

Georgia has two principal meanings:

• Georgia (country), previously known as:
  • Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (1921–1991), part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  • Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918–1921)
  • Georgian Kingdom, various earlier Georgian kingdoms and states - see History of Georgia
• Georgia (U.S. state), previously known as:
  • The Confederate State of Georgia (1861-1870), part of the Confederate States of America - see Georgia in the American Civil War
  • Province of Georgia (1732–1776)

Georgia may also refer to:

Places

• Georgia, Indiana, United States
• Georgia, Vermont, United States
• Georgia Avenue, in Washington, DC, United States
• Georgia Street, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• New Georgia, Solomon Islands
• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, British overseas territory in the South Atlantic/Southern Ocean
• Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, Canada

Media and entertainment

• Georgia (1988 film), Australian thriller
• Georgia (1995 film), American independent drama
• Georgia (2010 film), U.S.-Georgian drama about Georgia's conflict with Russia
• "Georgia" (song), 2005 song by Field Mob
• "Georgia on My Mind", 1930 song by Hoagy Carmichael
• "Sweet Georgia Brown", a 1925 jazz standard and pop tune
• "Georgia," 2007 song by Hanson, on the album The Walk

Ships

• CSS Georgia (battery), floating battery, commissioned 1863
• CSS Georgia (cruiser), merchantman, commissioned 1863
• SS Georgia, oil tanker, commissioned 1908
• USS Georgia (BB-15), battleship, commissioned 1906
• USS Georgia (SSGN-729), submarine, commissioned 1984

Other uses

• Georgia (drink)
• Georgia (name), female given name
• Georgia (typeface)
• University of Georgia, a major public research university in the U.S. state

See also

• All pages beginning with "Georgia"
• Georgian (disambiguation)
• George (disambiguation)

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