Perhaps best known to filmgoers as the setting for Gone With the Wind, Georgia also has a legacy of enterprise. Coca-Cola was first introduced in Atlanta, the state's largest city, in 1886, and the company is still a significant employer. Known for its peaches, the state also has a booming tourism trade that capitalizes on attractions such as Civil War battlefields and the lazy Southern charms of the coastal city Savannah. In the past decade, Georgia has begun to forge a reputation as a biosciences centre, building on its science strengths as home to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and several major universities, including Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, and the University of Georgia in Athens.

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