East Georgia
Region
DowntownAugusta
East Georgia highlighted in light pink
Location of Georgia within the United States
Country	United States
State	Georgia
Largest city	Augusta
Population  (2020)
• Total	479,864
Demonym	East Georgian
Website	georgia.org/regions/east-georgia

East Georgia is a thirteen-county region in theU.S. state of Georgia, borderingSouth Carolina. North ofCoastal andSouth Georgia as well as theLower Coastal Plain,^[1] part of the region lies in theFall Line section of the state. The largest county by population in East Georgia isRichmond County, and its most populous city isAugusta, anchoring theAugusta metropolitan statistical area. Tabulating the region's counties, its population as of the2020 U.S. census was 479,864.

Lying within the Fall Line area of Georgia, the region bordersSouth Carolina. According to theGeorgia Department of Economic Development, East Georgia is made up of the following counties:Burke,Columbia,Glascock,Hancock,Jefferson,Jenkins,Lincoln,McDuffie,Richmond,Taliaferro,Warren,Washington, andWilkes.^[1]

As of the2020 U.S. census, the counties comprising East Georgia had a total resident population of 479,864. Among these counties,non-Hispanic whites andAfrican Americans were the predominant racial and ethnic groups present in East Georgia, in common with the remainder of the state.

Religiously, East Georgia is within theBible Belt, andChristianity has been the predominant religion since thecolonial era. According to a study by theAssociation of Religion Data Archives in 2020,Protestantism was the largest collective Christian group, andBaptists were the largest Protestant tradition in the region.Non- or inter-denominational Protestants formed the second-largest Protestant tradition, followed byMethodists.Catholicism was the region's largest non-Protestant Christian group.^[2]

The largest Christian denominations irrespective of traditional grouping were theSouthern Baptist Convention,United Methodist Church,Catholic Church,National Baptist Convention of the United States of America,National Missionary Baptist Convention of America,African Methodist Episcopal Church, and theChurch of God (Cleveland, Tennessee). East Georgia also had a substantial population ofJehovah's Witnesses andMormons in theChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints according to the same study.

In 2020, the largest non-Christian religions wereHinduism,Islam,Buddhism,Judaism, theBaha'i Faith,Sikhism, andJainism according to the Association of Religion Data Archives.^[2] Of its Buddhist communities,Theravada Buddhism was the largest branch practiced, and the region's Jewish communities were divided betweenConservative Judaism,Reform Judaism,Orthodox Judaism, andChabad Judaism.

With an economy centered within the Augusta metropolis, its largest industries are medicine, biotechnology, cyber security, manufacturing, and education. Prominent employers and organizations throughout the region have beenAugusta University,Augusta Technical College,Paine College,East Georgia State College andGeorgia Military College, theRichmond County School System,Savannah River Site,^[3]Encompass Health Corporation,^[4]T-Mobile,Teleperformance, andCoca-Cola.^[5] Among the colleges and universities, Augusta University has made an economic impact of $2.24 billion and more than 21,000 jobs to the state's economy as of 2022.^[6]

Air travel services are provided by theAugusta Regional Airport.Daniel Field is another airport servicing the East Georgia region. East Georgia is also served by twointerstates and a multitude ofU.S. Routes, listed below:

33°32′53″N81°38′38″W / 33.548°N 81.644°W /33.548; -81.644

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