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From its incorporation in 1847, the municipal boundaries of Atlanta, Georgia, United States, were extended repeatedly from a small area around its railroad station to today's city covering 131.7 square miles (341 km 2). Prior to 1954, Atlanta was divided into political divisions called wards. The number of wards were increased as the city grew.
The climate of Atlanta and its metropolitan area is humid subtropical (Cfa) according to the Köppen classification, with four seasons including hot, humid summers and cool winters that are occasionally cold by the standards of the southern United States; the city and its immediate suburbs are located in USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 8a, although the far northern suburbs begin to transition to ...
The Atlanta area also has a fast growing Asian American population. The largest groups of Asian origin are those of Indian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Pakistani and Japanese descent. [174] Pew Research Center ranks the Atlanta area among the top 10 U.S. metropolitan areas by Indian population in 2019. [175]
Combined Statistical Area Population, 2023 estimates 1 Atlanta–Athens–Clarke County–Sandy Springs (GA-AL) 7,221,137 2 Savannah–Hinesville–Statesboro: 640,193 3 Columbus–Phenix City (AL)–Auburn (AL)–Opelika (AL) 566,030 4 Macon–Warner Robins: 436,853
Metro Atlanta, designated by the United States Office of Management and Budget as the Atlanta–Sandy Springs–Roswell metropolitan statistical area, is the most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of Georgia and the sixth-largest in the United States, based on the July 1, 2023 metropolitan area population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.
The neighborhoods are grouped by the city planning department into 25 neighborhood planning units (NPUs). These NPUs are "citizen advisory councils that make recommendations to the Mayor and City Council on zoning, land use, and other planning issues". [2] There are a variety of other widely recognized named areas within the city.
The land, which is owned by the city of Atlanta but falls just outside of the city’s limits in an unincorporated part of Dekalb County, was used as recently as the 1990s as a former prison farm ...
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