3 Demographics ? ? ? ? Atlanta encompasses 134.0 square miles (347.1 km2) of which 133.2 square miles (344.9 km2) is land and 0.85 square miles (2.2 km2) is water the city is situated among the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains at 1,050 feet (320 m) above mean sea level Atlanta has one of the highest elevations among major cities east of the Mississippi River Atlanta straddles the Eastern Continental Divide such that rainwater that falls on the south and east side of the divide flows into the Atlantic Ocean while rainwater on the north and west side of the divide flows into the Gulf of Mexico Atlanta sits atop a ridge south of the Chattahoochee River which is part of the ACF River Basin Located at the far northwestern edge of the city much of the river's natural habitat is preserved in part by the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area. . . Denmark (119), Environment Atlanta Georgia business directory, The Savannah Historic District attracts over eleven million tourists each year. Georgia Tech Housing is subject to a clear geographic division of campus into eastern and western areas that contain the vast majority of housing East Campus is largely populated by freshmen and is served by Brittain Dining Hall and North Avenue Dining Hall West Campus houses some freshmen transfer and returning students (upperclassmen) and is served by West Village Graduate students typically live off-campus (for example in Home Park) or on-campus in the Graduate Living Center or 10th and Home, Fulton County is governed by a seven-member board of commissioners whose members are elected from single-member districts They serve concurrent four-year terms the most recent election was held in November 2010 the county has a county manager system of government in which day-to-day operation of the county is handled by a manager appointed by the board the chairman of the Board of Commissioners is elected at-large for the county-wide position the vice chairman is elected by peers on a yearly basis, See also: List of Fraternities and Sororities at Georgia Institute of Technology. The most popular and heavily used services are those running on the NEC including the Acela Express and Northeast Regional the NEC runs from Boston to Washington D.C via New York City and Philadelphia Some services continue into Virginia the NEC services accounted for 12.1 million of Amtrak's 31.7 million passengers in fiscal year 2018 Outside the NEC the most popular services are the short-haul corridors in California These include the Pacific Surfliner Capitol Corridor and San Joaquin supplemented by an extensive network of connecting buses Together the California corridor trains accounted for a combined 5,731,795 passengers in fiscal year 2018 Other popular corridors include the Empire Corridor which consists of trackage between New York City and Niagara Falls New York via Albany and Buffalo New York and carried 1,517,194 passengers in fiscal year 2018 and the Keystone Service from New York City to Harrisburg via Philadelphia that carried 1,519,936 passengers that same year, 12.2 Former unincorporated communities 6 Arts and culture, Amtrak is required by law to operate a national route system Amtrak has presence in 46 of the 48 contiguous states (lacking Wyoming and South Dakota) Amtrak services fall into three groups: short-haul service on the Northeast Corridor state-supported short haul service outside the Northeast Corridor and medium- and long-haul service known within Amtrak as the National Network Amtrak receives federal funding for the vast majority of its operations including the central spine of the Northeast Corridor as well as for its National Network routes in addition to the federally funded routes Amtrak partners with transportation agencies in 18 states to operate other short and medium haul routes outside of the Northeast Corridor some of which connect to it or are extensions off of it in addition to its inter-city services Amtrak also operates commuter services for three state agencies including MARC in Maryland Shore Line East in Connecticut and Metrolink in California.
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