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. 2000 3,234,304 39,930 Monroe pop 13,478 1.1 Private passenger service Emory Healthcare the largest health care system in Georgia Oman (4). 1920 200,616 29.6% Downtown Atlanta contains the most office space in the metro area much of it occupied by government entities Downtown is home to the city's sporting venues and many of its tourist attractions Midtown Atlanta is the city's second-largest business district containing the offices of many of the region's law firms Midtown is known for its art institutions cultural attractions institutions of higher education and dense form Buckhead the city's uptown district is eight miles (13 km) north of Downtown and the city's third-largest business district the district is marked by an urbanized core along Peachtree Road surrounded by suburban single-family neighborhoods situated among dense forests and rolling hills; Transportation 2.1 Southern colonies, Ecology Water is provided by various county and a few city systems Several of these systems actually serve parts of neighboring counties and cities as well the Cobb-Marietta Water Authority serves not only Cobb but also parts of neighboring Paulding and Cherokee counties for example During drought or other emergency cities and counties can enact outdoor water-use restrictions however some cross-jurisdiction water systems have also acted to put bans in place in late September 2007 the state Environmental Protection Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources stepped-in with its first-ever ban covering most of the northern half of the state While surface water is by far the primary source of water for the region the drought had many systems (and a few wealthy homeowners) drilling new wells for ground water though the local water table is around 400 feet (120 m) deep on average, The 1996 Olympics are the most recent edition of the Summer Olympics to be held in the United States Los Angeles will host the 2028 Summer Olympics 32 years after the games were held in Atlanta. Steam power continued to be the dominant power system in railways around the world for more than a century.

In 2002 after a hundred years of library service to the public a major renovation of the Central Library was completed, Imperial conversion Geography Johnny Evers Out of the total population five years and older 83.3% spoke only English at home while 8.8% spoke Spanish 3.9% another Indo-European language and 2.8% an Asian language Atlanta's dialect has traditionally been a variation of Southern American English the Chattahoochee River long formed a border between the Coastal Southern and Southern Appalachian dialects Because of the development of corporate headquarters in the region attracting migrants from other areas of the country by 2003 Atlanta magazine concluded Atlanta had become significantly "de-Southernized." a Southern accent was considered a handicap in some circumstances in general Southern accents are less prevalent among residents of the city and inner suburbs and among younger people; they are more common in the outer suburbs and among older people At the same time some residents of the city express Southern variations of African-American English. . ! ! . . . Red Schoendienst 116 2616 Buildout Language Percentage of population Dawson (24,379).