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Southwest Georgia is a fourteen-county region in the U.S. state of Georgia, [1] bordering Alabama and Florida. Colloquially referred to as SOWEGA, the region is anchored by Albany—its most populous city and the region's sole metropolitan statistical area. As of the 2020 United States census, Southwest Georgia's
Initially called Valdosta Airfield in June 1941, it was renamed Moody Army Air Field on 6 December 1941. [8] The installation's namesake, Major George Moody (1908–1941), was a U.S. Army Air Corps test pilot who died on 5 May 1941 in a crash of the prototype Beech Model 25 twin-engine trainer aircraft on its first test flight in Wichita ...
Lowndes County (/ ˈ l aʊ n d z /) is a county located in the south-central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 118,251. [1] The county seat is Valdosta. [2]
Mills B. Lane had begun at Citizens Bank as a vice president and director in 1891. In 1901, Lane became president of Citizens Bank. In 1906, Lane and his associates purchased Southern Bank of Georgia enabling them to merge the two banks as the new C&S Bank. [4] The newly merged banks were officially named the Citizens and Southern Bank of Georgia.
Regionally, Valdosta is considered part of Southeast Georgia, a region bordering Coastal Georgia, South Georgia, and Southwest Georgia. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 36.4 square miles (94.3 km 2), of which 35.9 square miles (93.1 km 2) are land and 0.46 square miles (1.2 km 2), or 1.26%, are water. [33]
Valdosta State University. The Valdosta metropolitan area forms the economic center of Southeast Georgia. According to the Georgia Department of Economic Development, metropolitan Valdosta and Southeast Georgia's largest industries were the military through the Georgia Air National Guard, and healthcare and education, stimulated by the Mayo Health Clinic System and Valdosta State University. [7]
South Georgia is a seventeen-county region in the U.S. state of Georgia, [1] with a 2020 population of 292,759. The most populated county in the region is Laurens County, which had a 2020 census population of 49,570. The Dublin micropolitan area had a population of 65,903 in 2020.
The numbering plan area includes the cities of Albany, Valdosta, Adel, Leesburg, Bainbridge, Americus, Vienna, Fitzgerald, Ocilla, Cairo, Moultrie, Thomasville, McRae-Helena, and Tifton. The area code was created on August 1, 2000 in a three-way split of area code 912, [2] which had served the southern half of Georgia for forty-six years.