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Atlanta, Georgia, USA
33.7490° N, 84.3880° W - Climate: Subtropical
If you look at a globe, Atlanta is on a parallel latitude-wise with Casablanca, Tripoli, Beirut, Osaka, Los Angeles, and Phoenix.
Atlanta has the most tree coverage of any major city in the USA, hence our slogan, A City In A Forest.
Atlanta is one of the Top 4 cities in the USA for being the corporate home to Fortune 500 companies. It is where Coca-Cola was originally created. The Atlanta region is the World corporate headquarters for these companies and North American headquarters for 3 of Europe's biggest automakers:
Coca-Cola
UPS (United Parcel Service)
The Home Depot
Delta Airlines
Spanx
NCR Corp.
Mohawk Industries
Newell Rubbermaid
AFLAC (yes, the TV commercials with that duck!)
AGCO
Genuine Parts Co.
First Data
Equifax
AGCO
Flowers Foods (Wonderbread, Nature's Own, Sunbeam, Roman Meal, TastyCake, and more.)
Aaron's
Rock-Tenn
Waffle House
Arby's
Chick-Fil-A
Popeye's Chicken
Krystal
Mercedes-Benz North America
Porsche North America
Citroen/Peugeot North America
Atlanta's Hartsfield/Jackson International Airport is the world's busiest airport. Plus we have the CDC (The world headquarters of the Centers For Disease Control); The College Football Hall of Fame; The National Center for Civil and Human Rights Museum.
Atlanta & Georgia is second only to California for movie and television filming/production. Yes, now well ahead of New York. And Atlanta ranks as the 3rd best LGBT city in the USA, and the best city in the USA for African-American entrepreneurship.
So... apart from that, does Atlanta have anything going for it??
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