State Symbols
- Amphibian: American Green Tree Frog
- Bird: Brown Thrasher
- Butterfly: Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
- Dance: Square dance
- Fish: Largemouth bass
- Flower: Cherokee Rose
- Food: Grits, Peach, Vidalia onion
- Fossil: Shark tooth
- Gem: Quartz
- Insect: European honey bee
- Mammal: Right whale
- Mineral: Staurolite
- Nicknames:
- Peach State
- Empire State of the South.
- Reptile: Gopher tortoise
- Rock: Granite
- Shell: Knobbed Whelk
- Soil: Tifton
- Song: "Georgia on My Mind"
- Tree: Live oak
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