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The city of Atlanta, Georgia is made up of 243 neighborhoods officially defined by the city. [1] These neighborhoods are a mix of traditional neighborhoods, subdivisions, or groups of subdivisions. The neighborhoods are grouped by the city planning department into 25 neighborhood planning units (NPUs).
Dunwoody is a city located in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States.As a northern suburb of Atlanta, Dunwoody is part of the Atlanta metropolitan area.It was incorporated as a city on December 1, 2008 but its area establishment dates back to the early 1830s.
Downtown Atlanta is 20 miles (32 km) to the southeast, and Cartersville is 24 miles (39 km) to the northwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, Marietta has a total area of 23.2 square miles (60.0 km 2), of which 23.1 square miles (59.8 km 2) is land and 0.077 square miles (0.2 km 2), or 0.38%, is water. [5]
From its incorporation in 1847, the municipal boundaries of Atlanta, Georgia, United States, were extended repeatedly from a small area around its railroad station to today's city covering 131.7 square miles (341 km 2). Prior to 1954, Atlanta was divided into political divisions called wards. The number of wards were increased as the city grew.
Metro Atlanta, designated by the United States Office of Management and Budget as the Atlanta–Sandy Springs–Roswell metropolitan statistical area, is the most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of Georgia and the sixth-largest in the United States, based on the July 1, 2023 metropolitan area population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Sandy Springs is a city in northern Fulton County, Georgia, United States, and a suburb of Atlanta.The city's population was 108,080 at the 2020 census, [6] making it Georgia's 7th most populous city.
Cobb County is included in the Atlanta metropolitan area and is situated immediately to the northwest of Atlanta's city limits. Its Cumberland District, an edge city, has over 24 million square feet (2,200,000 m 2) of office space. Major League Baseball's Atlanta Braves have played home games at Truist Park in Cumberland since 2017. [5]
A section of the area, "The Bluff," is infamous throughout Metro Atlanta as a high crime area, but in late 2011, English Avenue and Vine City were the focus of multiple improvement plans, including a network of parks and trails, [2] [7] increased police presence, and "rebranding" for a more positive image.