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ATLANTA, GEORGIA

is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Residents of the city and its surroundings are known as "Atlantans." Atlanta is renowned for its robust but recent cultural institutions, which draw creative people and audiences to the city from throughout the Southeast for theater, the visual arts, writing and music.

During the 1960s, Atlanta was a major organizing center of the Civil Rights Movement, with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, and students from Atlanta's historically Black colleges and universities playing major roles in the movement's leadership.

For traditional Southern fare, one of the city's most famous establishments is The Varsity, a long-lived fast food chain and the world's largest drive-in restaurant. Mary Mac's Tea Room, where every morning workers shuck bushels of corn, wash selected greens, and snap fresh green beans by hand, has been Atlanta's Southern dining destination for more than 60 years. The city of Atlanta also has one of the highest LGBT populations per capita. It ranks 3rd of all major cities, behind San Francisco and slightly behind Seattle, with 12.8% of the city's total population recognizing themselves as gay, lesbian, or bisexual.
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