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Fulton County
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county in Georgia, United States
Fulton County is a county located in Georgia that includes the state's largest city, Atlanta. It's significant because it's one of the most populous counties in Georgia and serves as an important economic and political center for the state.
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Georgia
- Contains
- Atlanta
- Capital
- Atlanta
- Population
- 1066710
- Area
- 1385
- Shares border with
- DeKalb County
- Headquarters
- Atlanta
- Official website
- www.fultoncountyga.gov
- Image
- Atlanta Fulton County Courthouse 2012 09 15 05 6218.JPG
- Households
- 427379
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- different from
- Fulton County
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Fulton County, Georgia
- water as percent of area
- 1.4
- native label
- Fulton County
- Commons category
- Fulton County, Georgia
- topic's main category
- Category:Fulton County, Georgia
- inception
- 1853-12-20
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Fulton County, Georgia
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Fulton County, Georgia
- social media followers
- 17506
- per capita income
- 49369
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Encyclopedic overview
Fulton County is in the north-central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 1,066,710, making it the state's most populous county. Its county seat and most populous city is Atlanta, the state capital. About 90% of the city of Atlanta is within Fulton County; the remaining portion is in DeKalb County. Fulton County is the principal county of the Atlanta–Sandy Springs–Roswell metropolitan statistical area.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fulton County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.