Where is the Okefenokee Swamp?

The Okefenokee Swamp lies mainly in southeastern Georgia, with a small part extending into northern Florida. It is a huge peat-filled wetland famous for dark, tea-colored water, cypress trees, and abundant wildlife such as alligators, turtles, and wading birds. The swamp covers about 1,770 square kilometers, or roughly 438,000 acres. It is protected largely through the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, established in 1937. The area is also important scientifically because it preserves a rare wetland ecosystem that has remained wet for thousands of years.