The state of Georgia has numerous symbols, as defined in the Official Code of Georgia Annotated or by joint resolutions of the Georgia General Assembly.
Type | Symbol | Year and references | Image | |
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Amphibian | American green tree frog Hyla cinerea | 2005 | ||
Art museum | Georgia Museum of Art | 1982 | ||
Atlas | The Atlas of Georgia | 1985 | ||
Ballet company | Atlanta Ballet | 1973 | ||
Beef barbecue championship Cook-off | The Hawkinsville Civitan Club's "Shoot the Bull" barbecue championship | 1997 | ||
Bird | Brown thrasher Toxostoma rufum | 1935 (1970)[1] | ||
Botanical garden | State Botanical Garden of Georgia | 1984[2] | ||
Butterfly | Eastern tiger swallowtail Papilio glaucus | 1988 | ||
Center for character education | National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force | 2005 | ||
Cold water game fish | Southern Appalachian brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis | 2006 | ||
Creed | Georgian's Creed | 1939 | ||
Crop | Peanut | 1995 | ||
Dog | "Adoptable Dog" | 2016 | ||
Fish | Largemouth bass | 1970 | ||
Flag | Georgia flag | 2003 | ||
Flower | Cherokee rose Rosa laevigata | 1916 | ||
Folk dance | Square dance | 1996 | ||
Folk festival | Georgia Folk Festival | 1992 | ||
Folk life play | Swamp Gravy | 1994 | ||
Fossil | Shark tooth | 1976 | ||
Frontier and southeastern Indian interpretive center | Funk Heritage Center | 2003 | ||
Fruit | Peach | 1995 | ||
Game bird | Bobwhite quail | 1970 | ||
Gem | Quartz | 1976 | ||
Historic drama | The Reach of Song, a play about mountain writer Byron Herbert Reece | 1990 | ||
Historical civil rights museum | Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum | 2008 | ||
Insect | Honeybee | 1975 | ||
Marine mammal | North Atlantic right whale Eubalaena glacialis | 1985 | ||
Mineral | Staurolite | 1976 | ||
Motto | "Wisdom, Justice, Moderation" | 1799[3] | ||
Musical theater | Jekyll Island Musical Theatre Festival | 1993 | ||
Nut | Pecan | 2021[4] | ||
Peanut monument | Turner County on the west side of Interstate Highway 75 within the limits of the city of Ashburn | 1998 | ||
Poet Laureate | Poet Laureate of Georgia | 1925 | ||
Pork cook-off | The Dooly County Chamber of Commerce's "Slosheye Trail Big Pig Jig" | 1997 | ||
'Possum | Pogo 'Possum | 1992 | < | -- violation: --> |
Prepared food | Grits | 2002 | ||
Railroad museum | The Central of Georgia Railroad Shops Complex Savannah | 1996 | ||
Reptile | Gopher tortoise Gopherus polyphemus | 1989 | ||
Salt-water fish | Red drum Sciaenops ocellatus | 2006 | ||
School | Plains High School, now part of the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site | 1997 | ||
Seal | Great Seal of Georgia | 1798 (1914)[5] | ||
Seashell | Knobbed whelk Busycon carica | 1987 | ||
Song | "Georgia on My Mind" lyrics by Stuart Gorrell and music by Hoagy Carmichael with words by Robert Loveman.[6] [7] [8] | 1979 | ||
Tartan | Georgia Tartan | 1997 | ||
Theater | Springer Opera House Columbus | 1971–2, (1992)[9] | ||
Tree | Southern live oak Quercus virginiana | 1937 | ||
Transportation history museum | Southeastern Railway Museum | 2000 | ||
Vegetable | Vidalia sweet onion | 1990 | ||
Waltz | "Our Georgia" | 1951 | ||
Wildflower | Azalea Rhododendron sp. | 1979 |