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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.
Pages in category "Counties in the Atlanta metropolitan area" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Populated places in the Atlanta metropolitan area by county (29 C) B. Geography of Barrow County, Georgia (3 C) Geography of Bartow County, Georgia (3 C, 5 P)
As of 2023, the largest of these is the Atlanta--Athens-Clarke County--Sandy Springs, GA-AL CSA, encompassing 42 counties in Georgia and one in Alabama, anchored by Georgia's capital and largest city, Atlanta.
Fulton County: 121: Atlanta: 1853: DeKalb County + the former Campbell and Milton counties and a portion of Cobb County: Robert Fulton (1765–1815), the inventor who built the Clermont, the first commercially successful steamboat. 2,039.90/sq mi (787.61/km 2) 1,079,105: 529 sq mi (1,370 km 2) Gilmer County: 123: Ellijay: 1832: Cherokee County
Annexation Map of Atlanta from the 1980s; Property map of Emory University in 2017, attached to a press release from the university about its formally asking Atlanta to annex it; Maps showing annexation of CDC/Emory University area: "2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: DeKalb County, GA" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. p. 6 (PDF p. 7/22).
Atlanta is the largest city in Fulton County, occupying the county's narrow center section and thus geographically dividing the county's northern and southern portions. Atlanta's last major annexation in 1952 brought over 118 square miles (310 km 2 ) into the city, including the affluent suburb of Buckhead .
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 ...