Atlanta

Atlanta is the vanguard of the New South, with the charm and elegance of the Old. It's a city that balances southern traditions with sleek modernism, and southern hospitality with three skylines and the world’s busiest airport.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations: Decatur and Downtown Atlanta.

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is a city that, despite being somewhat isolated from the rest of Atlanta, is so close to Georgia's state capital as to not really be separate. While Atlanta is an international city with corporate headquarters, world class convention facilities, and a fast pace, has retained a small city feel and a slightly slower pace.

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is the central business district of Atlanta, , United States of America. The largest of the city's three commercial districts, it is the location of many corporate and regional headquarters; city, , state, and federal government facilities; Georgia State University; sporting venues; and most of Atlanta's tourist attractions.

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is a major financial and residential district of Atlanta, and an area for dining and nightlife. In other words, it is an area to work, live, and play, with many sites and activities.

Destinations to Discover

Places to explore: East Atlanta and Buckhead.

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is the trendiest area in Atlanta. It includes Inman Park, the popular dining and nightlife neighborhoods of Little Five Points, Virginia-Highland, and Poncey-Highland.

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, once known as Village, is becoming a true district of Atlanta with massive construction projects. It has a skyline of high-rise apartments, condominiums, and office buildings, but despite the closure of numerous nightclubs, it may be the district of Atlanta most famous for nightlife.

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is the side of Atlanta that includes the neighborhoods Bankhead, Vine City, West End, Oakland City, Westview, and Riverside.

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This itinerary is intended as a tour to take you through the Atlanta of yesterday and today, and even tomorrow.

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is a district in Atlanta that contains the Grant Park, Peoplestown, Lakewood Heights, and Mechanicsville neighborhoods, and is near the .

Places of Interest

Highlights: State Farm Arena and Georgia Aquarium.

Square
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is an indoor arena located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The arena serves as the home venue for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association.

Public aquarium
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is a public aquarium in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The aquarium exhibits hundreds of species and thousands of animals across its seven major galleries, all of which reside in more than 11 million US gallons whale shark exhibit.

Museum
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The is a located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, showcasing the history of The Coca-Cola Company. The 20-acre complex opened to the public on May 24, 2007, relocating from and replacing the original exhibit, which was founded in 1990 in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Virginia–Highland and Druid Hills.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia, founded in the early 20th century as a streetcar suburb. It is named after the intersection of Virginia Avenue and North Highland Avenue, the heart of its trendy retail district at the center of the neighborhood.

Suburb
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is a community which includes both a census-designated place in unincorporated , , United States, as well as a neighborhood of the city of Atlanta.

Neighborhood
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is a historic district and intown neighborhood on the near east side of Atlanta, , located two miles from downtown.

Atlanta

  • Type: City with 507,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of the U.S. state of Georgia and seat of Fulton County, also located in DeKalb County
  • Also known as: “Á Lan Đại”, “Ạt-lan-ta”, “ATL”, “Atlanta (Georgia)”, “Atlanta City”, “Atlanta GA”, “Atlanta, GA”, “Atlanta, Geórgia”, “Atlanta, Xeorxa”, “Canebrake”, “Ciudad de Atlanta”, “Hotlanta”, “Marthasdale”, “Marthasville”, “Marthasville, Georgia”, “Standing Peachtree”, “Terminus”, “The A”, “The A-T-L”, “The ATL”, “The Big Peach”, “Urbs Atlantae”, “White Hall”, “Whitehall”, “Әтләнта”, “Мартасвілль”, “Термінус”, “אַטלאַנטאַ”, “أتلانتا، جورجيا”, “أطلنطا”, “أطلنطا، جورجيا”, “ئاتلانتا”, “ئەتلانتا، جۆرجیا”, “اطلنطا”, “ߊߕߊߟߊ߲ߕߊ߬߸ ߖߌ߬ߐߙߑߖߌߊ”, “ߕߍߙߑߡߌߣߎߛ”, “அட்லாண்டா”, “അറ്റ്ലാന്റ”, “แอตแลนต้า”, “애틀란타”, “ザ・ビッグ・ピーチ”, “ターミナス”, “ホットランタ”, “亚特兰大市”, “亞城”, “大きな桃”, “大桃”, and “阿特蘭大”
  • Postal codes: 30301-30318, 30320, 30321, 30324-30328, 30331, 30332, 30334, 30336-30339, 30342-30344, 30348, 30349, 30353-30355, 30357, 30358, 30361, 30363, 30364, 30368-30371, 30374, 30375, 30377, 30378, 30380, 30384, 30385, 30388, 30392, 30394, 30396, 30398, 31106, 31107, 31126, 31131, 31136, 31139, 31150, 31156, 31192, 31193, 31195, and 31196
  • Categories: county seat, big city, city in the United States, municipality of Georgia, and locality
  • Location: , , , , ,
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Latitude
33.7545° or 33° 45′ 16″ north
Longitude
-84.3898° or 84° 23′ 23″ west
Population
507,000
Elevation
1,050 feet (320 metres)
IATA airport code
ATL
UN/LOCODE
US ATL
Open location code
865QQJ36+Q3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153843609
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4180439
Wiki­data ID
Q23556
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Atlanta” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Atlanta”
  • Albanian: “Atlanta”
  • Amharic: “አትላንታ”
  • Arabic: “أتلانتا”
  • Aragonese: “Atlanta”
  • Armenian: “Ատլանտա”
  • Asturian: “Atlanta”
  • Azerbaijani: “Atlanta”
  • Balinese: “Atlanta”
  • Bambara: “Atlanta”
  • Bashkir: “Атланта”
  • Basque: “Atlanta”
  • Belarusian: “Атланта”
  • Bengali: “আটলান্টা”
  • Bislama: “Atlanta, Georgia”
  • Bislama: “Atlanta”
  • Bosnian: “Atlanta”
  • Breton: “Atlanta”
  • Bulgarian: “Атланта”
  • Burmese: “အတ္တလန္တာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Atlanta”
  • Cebuano: “Atlanta”
  • Central Bikol: “Atlanta”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەتڵانتا”
  • Chamorro: “Atlanta”
  • Chavacano: “Atlanta”
  • Chechen: “Атланта”
  • Chinese: “亚特兰大”
  • Chinese: “亞特蘭大”
  • Cornish: “Atlanta, Jeorji”
  • Cornish: “Atlanta”
  • Corsican: “Atlanta”
  • Croatian: “Atlanta, Georgia”
  • Croatian: “Atlanta”
  • Czech: “Atlanta”
  • Dagbani: “Atlanta”
  • Danish: “Atlanta”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Atlanta”
  • Dutch: “Atlanta”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اتلانتا”
  • Emilian: “Atlànta”
  • Esperanto: “Atlanta”
  • Esperanto: “Atlanto”
  • Estonian: “Atlanta”
  • Extremaduran: “Atlanta”
  • Faroese: “Atlanta”
  • Finnish: “Atlanta”
  • French: “Atlanta”
  • Galician: “Atlanta”
  • Gan Chinese: “亞特蘭大”
  • Georgian: “ატლანტა”
  • German: “Atlanta”
  • Gilaki: “آتلانتا (جؤرجيا)”
  • Gilaki: “آتلانتا”
  • Gothic: “𐌰𐍄𐌻𐌰𐌽𐍄𐌰”
  • Greek: “Ατλάντα”
  • Gujarati: “એટલાન્ટા, જ્યોર્જિયા”
  • Gujarati: “એટલાન્ટા”
  • Haitian: “Atlanta”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Atlanta”
  • Hausa: “Atlanta”
  • Hawaiian: “ʻAtalana”
  • Hebrew: “אטלנטה”
  • Hindi: “अटलांटा”
  • Hungarian: “Atlanta”
  • Icelandic: “Atlanta”
  • Ido: “Atlanta”
  • Igbo: “Atlanta”
  • Iloko: “Atlanta”
  • Inari Sami: “Atlanta”
  • Indonesian: “Atlanta”
  • Interlingua: “Atlanta”
  • Interlingue: “Atlanta”
  • Irish: “Atlanta, Georgia”
  • Irish: “Atlanta”
  • Italian: “Atlanta”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Atlanta”
  • Japanese: “アトランタ”
  • Javanese: “Atlanta”
  • Kabyle: “Atlanta”
  • Kalaallisut: “Atlanta”
  • Kannada: “ಅಟ್ಲಾಂಟಾ, ಜಾರ್ಜಿಯಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಅಟ್ಲಾಂಟಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Atlanta”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Атланта”
  • Kashmiri: “اٹلانٹا”
  • Kazakh: “Атланта”
  • Kikuyu: “Atlanta”
  • Kirghiz: “Атланта”
  • Komering: “Atlanta”
  • Korean: “아틀란타”
  • Korean: “아틀랜타”
  • Korean: “애틀랜타”
  • Kurdish: “Atlanta”
  • Ladin: “Atlanta”
  • Ladino: “Atlanta”
  • Latin: “Atlanta”
  • Latvian: “Atlanta”
  • Ligurian: “Atlanta”
  • Limburgan: “Atlanta”
  • Lingala: “Atlanta”
  • Lithuanian: “Atlanta”
  • Lombard: “Atlanta”
  • Luxembourgish: “Atlanta”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Atlanta”
  • Macedonian: “Атланта”
  • Malagasy: “Atlanta, Georgia”
  • Malagasy: “Atlanta”
  • Malay: “Atlanta”
  • Malayalam: “അറ്റ്‌ലാന്റാ നഗരം”
  • Malayalam: “അറ്റ്ലാന്റാ നഗരം”
  • Maltese: “Atlanta”
  • Manx: “Atlanta”
  • Maori: “Ātaranata”
  • Maori: “Atlanta”
  • Marathi: “अटलांटा”
  • Mazanderani: “آتلانتا”
  • Mazanderani: “اتلانتا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Atlanta”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Atlanta”
  • Minangkabau: “Atlanta”
  • Mingrelian: “ატლანტა”
  • Moksha: “Атланта”
  • Mongolian: “Атланта”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “أطلانطا”
  • N'Ko: “ߡߊߙߑߕߍ߲߫ ߟߎߕߍߙ ߞߌ߲ߜ߭ ߘߐ߰ߡߊ߲”
  • Navajo: “Béésh Ahidaʼdiitiin”
  • Nepali: “एट्लान्टा”
  • Newari: “एट्लान्टा”
  • Newari: “एत्लान्ता”
  • Northern Frisian: “Atlanta”
  • Northern Luri: “آتلانتا”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Atlanta”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Atlanta”
  • Norwegian: “Atlanta”
  • Novial: “Atlanta”
  • Nyanja: “Atlanta”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Atlanta”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ætlanda”
  • Oromo: “Atlanta”
  • Ossetian: “Атлантæ”
  • Pali: “एट्लान्टा”
  • Pampanga: “Atlanta, Georgia”
  • Pampanga: “Atlanta”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਟਲਾਂਟਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Atlanta”
  • Persian: “آتلانتا”
  • Picard: “Atlanta”
  • Piemontese: “Atlanta”
  • Polish: “Atlanta”
  • Portuguese: “Atlanta”
  • Pushto: “اتلانتا”
  • Quechua: “Atlanta”
  • Romanian: “Atlanta”
  • Russian: “Атланта”
  • Rusyn: “Атланта, Джорджия”
  • Rusyn: “Атланта”
  • Samogitian: “Atlanta”
  • Samogitian: “Atlonta”
  • Sanskrit: “अटलान्टा”
  • Sardinian: “Atlanta”
  • Scots: “Atlanta”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Atlanta”
  • Serbian: “Атланта”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Atlanta”
  • Shan: “ဝဵင်းဢႅတ်ႉတလၢၼ်းတႃႇ”
  • Sicilian: “Atlanta”
  • Silesian: “Atlanta”
  • Sindhi: “ائٽلانٽا”
  • Sinhala: “ඇට්ලන්ටාව”
  • Slovak: “Atlanta”
  • Slovenian: “Atlanta”
  • Somali: “Atlanta”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آتلانتا”
  • Spanish: “Atlanta”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Atlanta”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⵜⵍⴰⵏⵜⴰ”
  • Swahili: “Atlanta, Georgia”
  • Swahili: “Atlanta”
  • Swedish: “Atlanta”
  • Swiss German: “Atlanta”
  • Tagalog: “Atlanta, Georgia”
  • Tajik: “Атланта”
  • Talysh: “Atlanta”
  • Tamil: “அட்லான்டா”
  • Tatar: “Атланта”
  • Telugu: “అట్లాంటా”
  • Thai: “แอตแลนตา”
  • Tibetan: “ཨ་ཊི་ལཱན་ཊཱ།”
  • Tumbuka: “Atlanta”
  • Turkish: “Atlanta”
  • Twi: “Atlanta”
  • Uighur: “Atlanta”
  • Ukrainian: “Атланта”
  • Urdu: “اٹلانٹا، جارجیا”
  • Urdu: “اٹلانٹا”
  • Uzbek: “Atlanta”
  • Venetian: “Atlanta”
  • Veps: “Atlant”
  • Vietnamese: “Atlanta”
  • Volapük: “Atlanta”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Atlanta, Georgia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Atlanta”
  • Welsh: “Atlanta, Georgia”
  • Welsh: “Atlanta”
  • Western Armenian: “Աթլանթա”
  • Western Frisian: “Atlanta”
  • Western Mari: “Атланта”
  • Western Panjabi: “اٹلانٹا”
  • Wu Chinese: “亚特兰大”
  • Yakut: “Атланта”
  • Yiddish: “אטלאנטא”
  • Yoruba: “Atlanta”
  • Yue Chinese: “亞特蘭大”
  • “Atlanta”
  • “ma tomo Alana”
  • “ma tomo Alanta”

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