Athens

Also known as Athens, Georgia, The Classic City, Athens, GA, Cedar Shoals

consolidated city-county and county seat of Clarke County, Georgia, United States

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Athens is a city in Georgia that serves as the county seat of Clarke County, with city and county governments combined into one entity. It is significant as an important administrative and population center in the state.

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Official name: Athens
Population: 127315
Area: 306.015258
Elevation: 194
Official website: www.athensclarkecounty.com
Image: Athens City Hall from NE corner.JPG
Households: 49556
Dialing code: 706

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postal code: 30612
Commons category: Athens, Georgia
inception: 1806-01-01
P8168: Tanith Belbin
water as percent of area: 1.5218
native label: Athens
per capita income: 25203
P12749: Ferdinand Raimund

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Athens is a consolidated city-county in the U.S. state of Georgia. Downtown Athens lies about 70 miles (110 km) northeast of downtown Atlanta. The University of Georgia, the state's flagship public university and an R1 research institution, is in Athens and contributed to its initial growth. In 1991, after a vote the preceding year, the original City of Athens abandoned its charter to form a unified government with Clarke County, referred to jointly as Athens–Clarke County, where it is the county seat.

As of 2021, the Athens-Clarke County's official website's population of the consolidated city-county (all of Clarke County except Winterville and a portion of Bogart) was 128,711. Athens is the sixth-most populous city in Georgia, and the principal city of the Athens metropolitan area, which had a 2020 population of 215,415, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Metropolitan Athens is a component of the larger Atlanta–Athens–Clarke County–Sandy Springs Combined Statistical Area.