🌿 Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge

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The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge is a 402,000‑acre (1,627 km2) National Wildlife Refuge located in Charlton, Ware, and Clinch Counties of Georgia, and Baker County in Florida, United States. The refuge is administered from offices in Folkston, Georgia. The refuge was established in 1937 to protect a majority of the 438,000 acres (1,770 km2) in the Okefenokee Swamp. The name "Okefenokee", often translated as "land of trembling earth", is likely derived from Hitchiti oki fanôːki.

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Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge is a natural World Heritage site in United States of America, in Americas. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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