Brunswick
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city in Glynn County, Georgia, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Georgia
- County
- Glynn
- Type
- Council-Manager
- Mayor
- Cosby H. Johnson
- Mayor pro tem
- Felicia Harris
- Commission
- Gwen Atkinson-Williams, Kendra Rolle, Lance Sabbe
- Manager
- Regina M. McDuffie
- City
- 25.09 sq mi (64.99 km )
- Land
- 17.02 sq mi (44.08 km )
- Water
- 8.07 sq mi (20.91 km )
- Metro
- 1,286 sq mi (3,332 km )
- Ccd
- 42.4 sq mi (109.8 km )
- Elevation
- 14 ft (4.3 m)
- Density
- 893.7/sq mi (345.06/km )
- Metro density
- 87/sq mi (33.7/km )
- Ccd density
- 1,037/sq mi (400.3/km )
- Demonym
- Brunswickian
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Brunswick (/ˈbrʌnzwɪk/ BRUN-zwik) is a city in and the county seat of Glynn County in the U.S. state of Georgia. As the primary urban and economic center of the lower southeast portion of Georgia, it is the second-largest urban area on the Georgia coastline after Savannah and contains the Brunswick Old Town Historic District. At the 2020 U.S. census, the population of the city proper was 15,210; the Brunswick metropolitan area's population as of 2020 was 113,495.
Established as "Brunswick" after the German Duchy of Brunswick–Lüneburg, the ancestral home of the House of Hanover, the municipal community was incorporated as a city in 1856. Throughout its history, Brunswick has served as an important port city; in World War II, for example, it served as a strategic military location with an operational base for escort blimps and a shipbuilding facility for the U.S. Maritime Commission. Since then, its port has served numerous economic purposes.
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