[1][2] According to the Georgia Department of Economic Development, Southeast Georgia consists of the following counties: Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks, Charlton, Clinch, Coffee, Cook, Echols, Irwin, Lanier, Lowndes, Pierce, Tift, Turner, and Ware.

Southeast Georgia, like the majority of the U.S. state, has been settled by a predominantly non-Hispanic white and Black or African American population since its colonial history.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives, the region's single largest Christian denomination was the Southern Baptist Convention, with 97,452 adherents.

During European colonization of the Americas, Spanish Catholics established missions throughout present-day regions of Southeast and Coastal Georgia.

[4] According to the same 2020 study, the largest non-Christian religions by adherence in the region were Buddhism, Islam, and the Baha'i Faith.