Savannah, Georgia (usa)

Savannah, Georgia

Savannah, Georgia ranks 601st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Orlando, Florida, Girona, and Yonkers, New York. Memorable people born in Savannah, Georgia include Stacy Keach, Flannery O'Connor, and Alicia Rhett. Memorable people who died in Savannah, Georgia include King Oliver, Jack Sherman, and Conrad Aiken. Savannah, Georgia has been the birth place of many actors, and writers and the death place of many musicians, and politicians. Savannah, Georgia is located in United States.

Savannah is the oldest city in the U.S. state of Georgia and the county seat of Chatham County. Established in 1733 on the Savannah River, the city was the capital of the colonial Province of Georgia and later the first state capital of Georgia. A strategic port city in the American Revolution and during the American Civil War, Savannah today is an industrial center and an important Atlantic seaport. The city is the most populous in the Coastal Georgia region and the fifth-most populous in the state as a whole, with a population of 147,780 at the 2020 census and an estimated 148,808 in 2024. The Savannah metropolitan area, with about 432,000 residents in 2024, is the third-largest metro area in the state. Read more on Wikipedia