University of Georgia
The University of Georgia is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Athens, Georgia, United States. Chartered in 1785, it is the first state-chartered public university in the United States.- Type: School
- Description: public university located in Athens, Georgia, United States
- Also known as: “Franklin College”, “Franklin College of Arts and Sciences”, “UGA”, and “uga.edu”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sanford Stadium and UGA Main Library.
Sanford Stadium
Stadium
Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium is the on-campus playing venue for football at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, United States. The 93,033-seat stadium is the ninth-largest American football stadium in the NCAA, and the 15th-largest such stadium in the world. Sanford Stadium is situated 860 feet south of University of Georgia.
UGA Main Library
Library
Photo: Coxonian, CC BY-SA 4.0.
UGA Main Library is situated 730 feet north of University of Georgia.
Tree That Owns Itself
Photo: Boston Public Library, Public domain.
The Tree That Owns Itself is a white oak tree that, according to legend, has legal ownership of itself and of all land within eight feet of its base. Also known as the Jackson Oak, the tree is at the corner of South Finley and Dearing Streets in Athens, Georgia, US. Tree That Owns Itself is situated 2,800 feet northwest of University of Georgia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Athens and Five Points.
Athens
Athens is a vibrant college town of 127,000 people in the Classic Heartland region of Georgia. Athens is most popular in the late summer and fall when students, families of students or college football fans visit the University of Georgia.
Five Points
Neighborhood
Five Points is a retail corridor and neighborhood in Athens, Georgia, centered on the intersection of Milledge Avenue and Lumpkin Street. It occupies the South-Southwest edge of the University of Georgia campus.
Normaltown
Neighborhood
Normaltown is a neighborhood in Athens, Georgia, by the Athens Regional Medical Center and named for the State Normal School formerly located there. It was the first area of Athens to be wired for electricity after the completion of the Mitchell Bridge hydroelectric plant in 1896. Normaltown is situated 2 miles northwest of University of Georgia.
University of Georgia
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“University of Georgia” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Universiteit van Georgia”
- Arabic: “جامعة جورجيا”
- Armenian: “Ջորջիայի համալսարան”
- Asturian: “UGA”
- Asturian: “Universidá de Georgia”
- Azerbaijani: “Corciya Universiteti”
- Belarusian: “Універсітэт Джорджыі”
- Belarusian: “Унівэрсытэт Джорджыі”
- Catalan: “Universitat de Geòrgia”
- Chinese: “佐治亚大学”
- Chinese: “喬治亞大學”
- Croatian: “University of Georgia”
- Czech: “Georgijská univerzita”
- Dutch: “Universiteit van Georgia”
- Dutch: “University of Georgia”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جامعة جورجيا”
- Esperanto: “Universitato de Georgio”
- Estonian: “Georgia Ülikool”
- Finnish: “Georgian yliopisto”
- French: “Université de Géorgie”
- German: “University of Georgia”
- Greek: “Πανεπιστήμιο της Τζόρτζια”
- Hebrew: “אוניברסיטת ג’ורג’יה”
- Hungarian: “Georgiai Egyetem”
- Indonesian: “Universitas Georgia”
- Irish: “Ollscoil Georgia”
- Italian: “Università della Georgia”
- Japanese: “ジョージア大学”
- Korean: “조지아 대학교”
- Latin: “Universitas Georgiae”
- Malayalam: “യൂണിവേഴ്സിറ്റി ഓഫ് ജോർജിയ”
- Marathi: “जॉर्जिया विद्यापीठ”
- Marathi: “युनिव्हर्सिटी ऑफ जॉर्जिया”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “University of Georgia”
- Norwegian: “University of Georgia”
- Persian: “دانشگاه جورجیا”
- Polish: “University of Georgia”
- Portuguese: “Universidade da Geórgia”
- Russian: “Университет Джорджии”
- Serbian: “Универзитет Џорџије”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Univerzitet u Džordžiji”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Univerzitet u Georgiji”
- Slovak: “Georgijská univerzita”
- Slovenian: “Univerza Georgie”
- South Azerbaijani: “جورجیا بیلیمیوردو”
- Spanish: “Universidad de Georgia”
- Swedish: “University of Georgia”
- Tagalog: “Unibersidad ng Georgia”
- Tamil: “ஜோர்ஜியா பல்கலைக்கழகம்”
- Tatar: “Җорҗия үнивирситите”
- Turkish: “Georgia Üniversitesi”
- Ukrainian: “Університет Джорджії”
- Urdu: “یونیورسٹی آف جارجیا”
- Vietnamese: “Đại học Georgia”
- Vietnamese: “Trường Đại học Georgia”
- Vietnamese: “UGA”
- Welsh: “Prifysgol Georgia”
- “Georgia”
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