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Athens, officially Athens–Clarke County, is a consolidated city–county and college town in the U.S. state of Georgia. Athens lies about 70 miles (110 kilometers) northeast of downtown Atlanta, and is a satellite city of the capital. The University of Georgia, the state's flagship public university and an R1 research institution, is in ...

Telephone exchange names. Face of a 1939 rotary dial showing the telephone number LA-2697, which includes the first two letters of Lakewood, New Jersey. A telephone exchange name or central office name was a distinguishing and memorable name assigned to a central office. It identified the switching system to which a telephone was connected.

List of area codes. 229 – Albany, Thomasville, Valdosta, Tifton, Cairo Georgia, Fitzgerald and Americus (southwest Georgia) 404 – Atlanta and immediate environs (central Fulton and DeKalb counties) 470 – Atlanta and its suburbs, overlay area code that covers same area as 404, 678 and 770. 478 – Macon, Forsyth, Fort Valley, Warner Robins ...

In 1758, the Province of Georgia was divided into eight parishes, and another four parishes were partitioned in 1765. On February 5, 1777, the original eight counties of the state were created: Burke, Camden, Chatham, Effingham, Glynn, Liberty, Richmond, and Wilkes. Georgia has the second-largest number of counties of any state in the United ...