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'''Atlanta''' is the capital of Georgia and its largest city, and the largest metropolitan area in the American South. The Coca-Cola Company (Pepsi is blasphemy), Delta Air Lines, Chick-fil-A, Mercedes-Benz USA, and the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) have headquarters here. Turner Broadcasting, which owns CNN, is also based there. Atlanta can roughly be divided to areas within and outside the Perimeter (Interstate 285), a beltway highway that is known for insane traffic.

Atlanta has [[wikipedia:Peachtree Street|at least seventeen streets]] named with variations on Peachtree .<ref> Many European plants not normally thought of as aggressive went berserk when introduced to the Americas. Much of the Deep South was overrun by peach trees; Argentina was smothered by feral spinach. (For a twentieth-century repeat of this story, see... ''[[wikipedia:Kudzu|that]]''.)</ref>. The city hosted the 1996 Summer Olympic Games, in which East African marathon runners collapsed with heatstroke. The city infamously listed Olive Garden as the best Italian restaurant in the city in the guidebooks for said Olympic Games. Right by Centennial Park is the Georgia Aquarium, the world's largest indoor one.

* The Hawks are an NBA team that used to have a logo that looked suspiciously like [[Pac-Man]]. Another middle-of-the-pack team, also owned by Ted Turner for a few years. Their most notable player in recent history was Dominique Wilkins, nine time All-Star, two time Slam Dunk champion, and often cast as one of Michael Jordan's [[Worthy Opponent|Worthy Opponents]]s.

* Atlanta had two different NHL teams,<ref>Yes, really. Stop laughing.</ref>, both of which were stolen by Canada: the Flames, which moved to Calgary in 1980, and the Thrashers, which were bought by Winnipeg in 2011.

* The [[ZoeZoë Martinique]] series of novels takes place in Atlanta.

* The internet comedy group [https://web.archive.org/web/20131106073128/http://dormtainment.com/ Dormtainment] live in the Atlanta suburb of Dunwoody, in fact at least two of their videos require you to have some knowledge of the Atlanta area to get it (though you could probably figure it out): "Straight Outta Dunwoody" (a rap song about an upper-middle class suburb) and "Bday Bash" (annual concert held by a radio station in Atlanta).

* Atlanta has a strong hip-hop and R&B scene, perhaps best known for the "Dirty South" movement, but producing a wide variety of acts such as Arrested Development, [[Ludacris]], [[OutKast]], Goodie Mob (Cee-Lo[[CeeLo Green]]'s old group, who first [[Trope Namer|coined]] the term "Dirty South"), [[Usher]], T.I., Keri Hilson, Young Jeezy, [[Lil' Jon]], [[TLC (band)|TLC]], Monica, and Ciara.