Georgia

Capital: Atlanta
Population: 9,685,744 (2008 est.)
Unemployment rate: 10,2% (Okt 2009)
Number of German subsidiaries: 384

Industry:
• Cotton, rice, tobacco, sugar cane, peanuts and various kinds of fruits
• Textil-, timber- and food processing industry
• Poultry, eggs, pekans, peaches, peanuts, rye, cattle, milk products, turf, tobacco, vegetables, textiles, apparel, meat processing
• Paperproducts,
• Chemical products
• Tourism

• Transportation equipment and components

• Machinery and equipment
• Technology (software, telecommunications, electronics)

Infrastructure:
Fifteen Interstates, 107 airports (Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson is the most frequented passenger airport in the world), nine of them commercial, well connected to the Intracoastel Waterway

Consulate:

Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, Dr. Lutz Hermann Görgens
Marquis Two Tower - Suite 901, 285 Peachtree Center Avenue, N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30303-1221, USA
Phone: (404) 659 4760

Fax: (404) 659 1280
Email: info(at)atlanta.diplo.de  
Homepage: http://www.atlanta.diplo.de
Administrative district: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina,  South 
                                 Carolina, Tennessee.

Additional information:
Highest energy consumption and -production in the United States because Georgia is leading in the energy-intensive wood and paper production.