. Georgia was the 4th state to ratify the United States Constitution See also: List of newspapers in Georgia (U.S state).
. . ! A College of Design, 1775 2,400,000 There is no true metropolitan government in Georgia though the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) and Georgia Regional Transportation Authority do provide some services and the ARC must approve all major land development projects in the Atlanta metropolitan area, Georgia state legislators have claimed that in an 1818 survey the state's border with Tennessee was erroneously placed one mile (1.6 km) farther south than intended and have continued to dispute this with Tennessee Correction of this inaccuracy would allow Georgia access to water from the Tennessee River. Owing to the area's long history of settlement and uneven terrain most arterial roads are not straight but meander instead which can be confusing as much as the famed proliferation of Atlanta streets with "Peachtree" in the name It is also often joked that half the streets are named Peachtree while the other half have several names to make up for it, Immediately after the 1996 Summer Paralympics which followed the Olympics the stadium went through its first conversion Much of the north end of the stadium was removed in order to convert it to its permanent use as a 49,000-seat baseball park the stadium hosted the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball from 1997 to 2016 following a multimillion-dollar renovation to retrofit the stadium for baseball by removing the temporary stands that had made up nearly half the stadium and building the outfield stands and other attractions behind them, Atlanta played a vital role in the Allied effort during World War II due to the city's war-related manufacturing companies railroad network and military bases leading to rapid population and economic growth in the 1950s the city's newly constructed highway system allowed middle class Atlantans the ability to relocate to the suburbs As a result the city began to make up an ever-smaller proportion of the metropolitan area's population. 1.2 Formation Print The 2010 census counted 5,268,860 people in the 28-county metro area This was an increase of 1,020,879 versus the same 28-county area in 2000 second only to Houston the percent increase was 24.0% second-highest (after Houston) among the nation's ten largest metro areas, All MLB On-time performance is calculated differently for airlines than for Amtrak a plane is considered on-time if it arrives within 15 minutes of the schedule Amtrak uses a sliding scale with trips under 250 miles (400 km) considered late if they are more than 10 minutes behind schedule up to 30 minutes for trips over 551 miles (887 km) in length, See also: Sports in Atlanta 2013 2,548,679 31,465 63.3% 13th 21st A brown thrasher Georgia's state bird! Coweta (202/sq mi), Train inspection systems, Policing 2 Access and transportation Qatar (12).
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