JUST THOUGHT YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS ABOUT ATLANTA....

ATLANTA HAS....

130 retail centers
41 public golf courses
54 public parks
32 streets with the name "Peachtree"
the largest toll-free telephone dialing area in the world
the largest suburban office park in the world - Perimeter Center
the largest mall in the Southeast - Lenox Square
the world's largest bas-relief sculpture - Georgia's Stone Mountain Park
the largest federal regional concentration outside Washington D.C.
the largest 10K race in the world - The annual Peachtree Road Race with 45,000 runners
the second largest theatre organ in the nation - The Fox Theatre
the oldest ballet company in the nation - The Atlanta Ballet
the tallest escalator in the Southeast - at MARTA's Peachtree Center station - 192 feet
the largest hotel in the Southeast - the Atlanta Marriott Marquis - 1,674 rooms
the tallest hotel in the western hemisphere - The Westin Peachtree Plaza - 73 stories; 723 feet tall
the tallest building in the Southeast - NationsBank Plaza - 55 stories; 1,023 feet tall
more shopping center space per capita than any other city except Chicago
the second-largest convention center in the world - the Georgia World Congress Center

Other Interesting Facts About ATL You Should Know...

Atlanta is host to well over 16.5 million visitors each year.

Atlanta is the fifth city to be the capital of the state of Georgia. It was
preceded by Savannah, Augusta, Louisville and Milledgeville.

The Varsity Restaurant has earned the distinction of serving the highest volume of Coca-Cola anywhere. It dispenses nearly 3 million servings of Coca-Cola annually.
(PERSONALLY I ONLY LIKE THEIR ONION RINGS)

With a passenger terminal complex equivalent in size to more than 45 football fields, Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport bears the proud distinction of being "the world’s busiest passenger airport."

The Capitol Dome is layered in 43 ounces of pure gold that was mined in Dahlonega, Georgia - the site of America's first Gold Rush.

There are approximately 55 streets with the name “Peachtree” in Georgia.

Atlanta has 130 retail centers and 54 public parks, and the city is home to the fourteenth largest mall in the nation – The Mall of Georgia.

Atlanta has more shopping center space per capita than any other city except Chicago.

Atlanta is home to the Peachtree Road Race, the largest 10K race in the world with approximately 45,000 runners annually. Atlanta is the only city in North America destroyed by a fire as an act of war, when General Sherman burned the city on November 15, 1864. Today, the city's symbol is the Phoenix, a legendary bird of Egyptian mythology that rose from its own ashes with renewed strength and beauty.

Atlanta is home to the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site, the largest museum in the world solely dedicated to a famous civil rights leader.