Atlanta is the capital of and the most crowded city in the U.S. state of Georgia, with an expected 2015 populace of 463,878. Atlanta is the social and monetary focal point of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to 5,522,942 individuals and the ninth biggest metropolitan area in the United States. Atlanta is the province seat of Fulton County, and a little segment of the city augments eastbound into DeKalb County.

Atlanta was built up in 1837 at the convergence of two railroad lines, and the city ascended from the cinders of the American Civil War to wind up a national center of commerce. In the decades taking after the Civil Rights Movement, amid which the city earned a notoriety for being "too busy to hate" for the moderately dynamic perspectives of some of its subjects and pioneers contrasted with different urban areas in the Deep South. Atlanta accomplished universal noticeable quality. Atlanta is the essential transportation center of the Southeastern United States, by means of highway, railroad, and air, with Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport being the world's busiest air terminal since 1998.

Atlanta is a "world city", applying a huge effect upon trade, fund, technology, innovation, training, media, education, and entertainment. It positions 36th among world urban communities and eighth in the country with a total national output of $270 billion. Atlanta's economy is viewed as various, with predominant parts including coordination’s, expert and business administrations, media operations, and Information technology. Topographically, Atlanta is set apart by moving slopes and thick tree coverage. Revitalization of Atlanta's neighborhoods, at first prodded by the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, has increased in the 21st century, adjusting the city's demographics, governmental issues, and culture.