Forest Park, Georgia, is a suburb of Atlanta with about 19,000 residents. Forest Park is in Clayton County. It is approximately nine miles south of Atlanta and part of the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city spans 9.4 square miles, of which 0.04 square miles is water.
Georgia is in the Southeastern region of the U.S. and shares borders with Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, the Atlantic Ocean, Florida, and Alabama. It is the 24th-largest and eighth-most populous, with about 10,711,900 residents. Atlanta is the state capital and largest city. More than 6,000,000 people make it the ninth most populous metro area in the U.S.