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Cairo is a city in southwest Georgia and the county seat of Grady County, located about 30 miles north of Tallahassee, Florida.

Although it shares its name with the capital of Egypt, Cairo, Georgia pronounces its name 'KAY-ro.'

Cairo was founded in 1835, incorporated as a town in 1870 and as a city in 1906.

When Grady County was newly formed in 1905, Cairo was designated its county seat, a role it has held since 1906.

At the 2020 census Cairo had 10,179 residents, living in 3,932 households.

Cairo is nicknamed the 'Syrup City' because for decades it was the heart of Georgia's cane-syrup industry, producing syrup from the early 1900s through the late 1990s.

In 1889 the Roddenbery company marketed the first pure Georgia cane syrup under its own label, and Roddenbery's became the best known of Cairo's several syrup producers.

Cairo High School's athletic teams are the Syrupmakers and Syrupmaids, with a syrup pitcher as mascot — a nickname ESPN ranked the best high school sports nickname in America in 1986.

Baseball Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson, who broke Major League Baseball's modern color barrier in 1947, was born in Cairo in 1919.

Cairo is also the hometown of Teresa Edwards, the first American basketball player — male or female — to compete in five Olympic Games.