Garden City, sometimes known as Garden City Beach, is a census-designated place (CDP) in Horry County, South Carolina, United States. Despite its name, Garden City is not incorporated and does not have a city council or mayor. The population was 9,209 at the 2010 census. Garden City is located directly south of Surfside Beach. The developed part of the beach extends south beyond the limits of the Garden City CDP, into Georgetown County, and ends on a peninsula at the mouth of Murrells Inlet.

Garden City is located in southern Horry County. It is bordered to the northeast by the town of Surfside Beach, to the northwest by U.S. Route 17, to the south by unincorporated Murrells Inlet in Georgetown County, and to the southeast by the Atlantic Ocean. U.S. Route 17 Business is the main road through the center of the community, leading northeast 10 miles (16 km) to the center of Myrtle Beach. Georgetown is 25 miles (40 km) to the southwest via US 17.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the Garden City CDP has a total area of 5.4 square miles (14.1 km2), of which 5.4 square miles (13.9 km2) are land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km2), or 1.47%, are water. -- above from Wikipedia