List of Georgia state symbols

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
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)
Botanical garden	State Botanical Garden of Georgia	1984
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
Musical theater	Jekyll Island Musical Theatre Festival	1993
Nut	Pecan	2021
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
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)
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.	1979
Tartan	Georgia Tartan	1997
Theater	Springer Opera House Columbus	1971–2, (1992)
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