Overview
Atlanta is the capital of Georgia and the largest city in the U.S. Southeast — around 500,000 residents in the city itself and roughly six million across the metro area, the ninth-largest in the United States. It is the home of the Atlanta civil-rights movement and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the corporate base of Coca-Cola, Delta and CNN, and the global gateway through Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), the busiest passenger airport in the world by traffic volume.
Travel
Atlanta has a small downtown and a large everything-else, and the way to read the city is as a set of urban villages rather than as a centre with suburbs. Sweet Auburn, east of downtown, is the historical heart: the district where Black Atlanta built its own business and church life under segregation, and where Martin Luther King Jr. was born, preached and is buried — now a National Historical Park and the reason a great many people come here at all. Midtown holds the arts institutions and the city's central park. Buckhead is the affluent north end. Inman Park, Virginia-Highland, Little Five Points and Cabbagetown are the bungalow-and-mill-village neighbourhoods where the eating and drinking happen. Two pieces of infrastructure connect them and make the city navigable without a car, which is unusual in the American South: MARTA's rail spine, running from the airport through downtown to Midtown and Buckhead, and the BeltLine, a trail loop built on old rail corridors that has quietly become the city's main pedestrian street. Beyond that, Atlanta is the busiest air gateway on earth, a film and music capital — this is one of the global centres of hip-hop — and a Southern food city with both its soul-food institutions and a modern restaurant scene worth planning around.
The Sweet Auburn district east of downtown was the spine of Atlanta's Black business and cultural community in the segregation era and remains one of the most important Civil Rights heritage sites in the United States. The Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park includes Dr. King's birth home on Auburn Avenue, the Ebenezer Baptist Church where he preached, the King Center memorial complex and reflecting pool, and the original Ebenezer Heritage Sanctuary. The National Center for Civil and Human Rights downtown layers the Atlanta-rooted story into the wider U.S. civil-rights movement and contemporary global human-rights themes. The APEX African American Panoramic Experience Museum, the Auburn Avenue Research Library and the everyday businesses on Edgewood Avenue extend the district beyond the formal park boundaries.
Diplomatic missions in Atlanta
6 embassies based in this city, grouped by region.
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