There are ten National Natural Landmarks in the U.S. state of Georgia.
| Name | Image | Date | Location | County | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Hammock Natural Area | 01976-01-011976 | Tattnall | Relatively undisturbed broadleaf evergreen hammock forest. | |||
| Camp E.F. Boyd Natural Area | 01974-01-011974 | Emanuel | One of the best representatives of the upland sand ridge ecosystem of the Coastal Plain | |||
| Cason J. Calloway Memorial Forest | 01972-01-011972 | Harris | An outstanding example of transitional conditions between eastern deciduous and southern coniferous forest types. | |||
| Ebenezer Creek Swamp | 01976-01-011976 | Effingham | The best remaining cypress-gum swamp forest in the Savannah River basin. | |||
| Heggie's Rock | 01980-01-011980 | Columbia | The best example in eastern North America of the remarkable endemic flora restricted to granite outcrops. | |||
| Lewis Island Tract | 01974-01-011974 | McIntosh | One of the most extensive bottomland hardwood swamps in Georgia. | |||
| Marshall Forest | 01966-01-011966 | Rome | Floyd | A loblolly pine-shortleaf pine forest believed to have originated following an intense fire at about the time the Cherokee Indians were forcibly removed to Oklahoma. | ||
| Okefenokee Swamp | 01974-01-011974 | Charlton, Clinch, Ware | One of the largest and most primitive swamps in the country. | |||
| Panola Mountain | 01980-01-011980 | Rockdale | The most natural and undisturbed monadnock of exposed granitic rock in the Piedmont biophysiograpic province. | |||
| Wassaw Island | 01967-01-011967 | Chatham | Only island of the Golden Isles with an undisturbed forest cover. |
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