Georgia Counties

Complete list of all 159 counties in Georgia with population, area, median income, and county seats — plus a free printable blank map.

Counties

159

Population

10,940,417

Area

57,509 sq mi

Capital

Atlanta

Time Zone

Eastern (ET)

Labeled outline map of Georgia counties. Download a printable version in SVG, PNG, or PDF.

All 159 Georgia counties

County	County Seat	Population ▼	Area	Median Income	Cities
Fulton	—	1,144,387	527 mi²	$103,168	8
Gwinnett	—	905,470	430 mi²	$92,928	12
DeKalb	—	833,267	268 mi²	$86,111	12
Cobb	—	777,758	340 mi²	$104,595	9
Chatham	—	305,309	426 mi²	$71,619	5
Cherokee	—	296,265	422 mi²	$105,878	7
Henry	—	274,376	322 mi²	$82,907	4
Clayton	—	230,760	142 mi²	$59,405	7
Hall	—	212,567	393 mi²	$82,912	8
Richmond	—	200,671	324 mi²	$56,665	4
Forsyth	—	198,629	224 mi²	$143,369	1
Muscogee	—	196,468	216 mi²	$60,898	4
Columbia	—	171,448	290 mi²	$96,948	5
Houston	—	161,848	376 mi²	$83,963	7
Coweta	—	153,253	441 mi²	$97,058	8

How many counties does Georgia have?

Georgia has 159 counties covering 57,509 square miles and roughly 10,940,417 residents. The state was admitted to the Union in 1788 as the 4th state, and the current county boundaries reflect more than a century of administrative subdivision.

The largest county by land area is Ware County at 892 square miles, home to about 37,566 residents. The most populous is Fulton County with approximately 1,144,387 residents — a density of about 2,172 people per square mile.

At the other end of the scale, Webster County has only about 1,133 residents.

Atlanta is both the state capital and the largest city in Georgia.

Related resources

Download a printable outline of Georgia’s county boundaries from our blank map of Georgia page — available in SVG, PNG, and PDF.

Use the What County Am I In? tool to detect which Georgia county a GPS location or address falls in, or the Address to County Lookup for batch input.

For demographic radius analysis, the Find ZIP Codes in Radius and Population Within Radius tools let you draw a circle around any Georgia address and see every ZIP code and the total population inside.

Two SimpleMapLab studies cover Georgia specifically: the 100-mile radius around Atlanta measures how much of the state lives within 100 miles of its capitol, and the loneliest town in Georgia ranks the state’s most isolated inhabited place. The county-counts blog post puts Georgia’s 159 counties in national context.

Frequently asked questions

Georgia has 159 counties. The state was admitted to the Union in 1788 as the 4th state. County boundaries have shifted over time as the population spread and new administrative units were carved from existing ones.

Ware County is the largest by land area at 892 square miles, with about 37,566 residents.

Fulton County is the most populous, with approximately 1,144,387 residents over 527 square miles.

Webster County has the smallest population at about 1,133 residents.

Atlanta is both the state capital and the largest city in Georgia.

Population, area, and demographic figures are aggregated from ZIP-code-level US Census data (via the SimpleMaps dataset) and the US Census Gazetteer. County boundaries used to render the map are from the US Atlas TopoJSON build of the Census Bureau's TIGER/Line shapefiles. The data is public domain.

Data sources

Population and demographics are aggregated from ZIP-code-level US Census data via the SimpleMaps dataset. Countiesboundaries are from the US Atlas TopoJSON build of the Census Bureau’s TIGER/Line shapefiles. Land area is from the Census Gazetteer. State counts follow the US Census Bureau’s definition of counties and county-equivalents (50 states + DC = 3,143). All sources are public domain.

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