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Atlanta, Georgia, some facts and details worth knowing.........

The Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport has held the title of “world’s busiest airport” for 18 years now. Lots of airports claim to be the world’s busiest, however, its 101 million passengers trumps any “passenger movements” in other airports around the world. It’s just a three-hour flight from most major American cities and its terminal is as big as 45 football fields!


Georgia now ranks third in the nation in US film production, and first in growth. More television and movie producers are catching on that Atlanta, with its attractive tax policies, is the place to film.

To name a few projects that have been shot in the city, there’s Anchorman 2, The Hunger Games, Zombieland, Driving Miss Daisy, The Walking Dead, Captain America: Civil War, Allegiant, The Vampire Diaries, Insurgent, Ant-Man, Furious 7, anything on Cartoon Network, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Selma, Taken 3, and an additional 140 films and TV shows since 2008. Take that, Los Angeles and NYC!


Buckhead, one of Atlanta’s most affluent neighborhoods and shopping mecca of the South, owes its unusual name to 19th Century local general store owner Henry Irby.


The tallest building in the United States outside of New York City or Chicago is located in Atlanta, Georgia. The Bank of America Plaza stands at 1,023 feet tall and dominates the city’s skyline. One of the interesting parts of the design of the building is that there are no street-level pedestrian entrances, most people enter and exit the building from the parking areas located underground.


In terms of the largest concentration of the Fortune 500 companies in the USA, the city of Atlanta ranks third.


What do Outkast, Ludacris, Gucci Mane, Childish Gambino, CeeLo Green, Waka Flocka, and Killer Mike all have in common? Atlanta. But not only do some of the most famous rappers and hip-hop artists call Atlanta home, other bands such as the Black Lips, Manchester Orchestra, and Deerhunter, have gotten their start here.


The Varsity is the world’s largest drive-in restaurant, serving more Coca-Cola (another Atlanta creation) by volume than anywhere else in the world. Find it downtown, alongside I-85 at the corner of North Ave and Spring St.


Atlanta encompasses 134.0 square miles, of which 133.2 square miles is land and 0.85 square miles is water. The city is situated among the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. At 1,050 feet (320 m) above mean sea level, Atlanta has the highest elevation among major cities east of the Mississippi River. Atlanta straddles the Eastern Continental Divide.


With a GDP of $385 billion, the Atlanta metropolitan area's economy is the tenth largest in the country and among the top 20 largest in the world.


An analysis of FBI Uniform Crime Report data of 2016 data, taken from official police information and local reports, found that among U.S. cities with populations of over a quarter-million people, Atlanta had the tenth-highest murder rate, at 23.9 per 100,000 residents.


Street gangs of various levels of sophistication have had a presence in the city since the late 1970s. In 2015, Atlanta police were tracking about 192 gangs, more than double the number identified six years earlier. The supervisor of the FBI's Atlanta Safe Streets Gang Task Force said in 2016 that more than half of violent crime in the city involved gang members. In addition to violent crime, drug dealing, and carjacking, some Atlanta gangs commit identity theft and credit card fraud.


Atlanta is now a major transportation hub when it comes to trafficking young girls from Mexico and is one of the fourteen U.S. cities with the highest levels of sex trafficking of children.

In the year of 2007 the sex trade generated $290 million in Atlanta. This number derives from the study "Estimating the Size and Structure of the Underground Commercial Sex Economy in Eight Major US Cities" by the Urban Institute, with 18 interviews​ conducted in Atlanta, and includes "prostitutes, massage parlors, and brothels" including both "pimp controlled" and "non-pimp controlled".


The Atlanta crime family, also known as the Georgia Mob, the Atlanta Mob, or the Grossio family is an Italian-American Mafia (La Cosa Nostra) organized crime family based in Atlanta, Georgia. It was formed 1930 by Raymond "The Scholar" Agriguta.