#geography

Atlanta's nickname for the Chattahoochee River.

Welsh for a coastal salt marsh — the flat wet land where sea meets field.

Zone 4 — Westside / Southwest Atlanta.

The back-of-town New Orleans neighborhoods, inland from the river toward North Claiborne.

Atlanta's original area code — worn as a badge of true-city authenticity.

Across the Mississippi from NOLA proper — Algiers, Gretna, Marrero, Harvey.

The twin bridges over the Mississippi linking NOLA to the West Bank.

Postcode turf claimed by a gang.

The twin bridges carrying I-10 across Lake Pontchartrain to Slidell.

'Downtown' in Houston drawl.

The tangled I-285/I-85 interchange in northeast Atlanta — landmark and metaphor.

North Houston street whose 'Kirk-en-doll' pronunciation outs you as local or tourist.

A pool at the foot of a waterfall — sometimes the falls themselves.

Atlanta Police Department's Westside / Southwest zone.

Texan for the highway frontage/access road.

Southwest Atlanta — 'Southwest Atlanta Too Strong.'

A causeway or paved track — Welsh for the kind of road Romans built.

Underground Atlanta — the historic district built below the streets.

What New Orleans calls a road median.

Houston, named for the ten-plus bayous that vein the city.

Inside the Perimeter — living within I-285, i.e. actual Atlanta.

A historic NOLA neighborhood — Marigny, Tremé, St. John, the whole crew.

Old National Highway — south metro Atlanta strip.

Eastside Atlanta — Gucci Mane's home turf.

NOLA's cardinal directions — locals don't use N/S/E/W because the river bends.

The elevated stretch of I-10 arching over the Industrial Canal — a NOLA landmark.

Old National Highway — the stretch of GA-279 in south Fulton, ATL slang shorthand.

Gwinnett County, northeast of Atlanta — Nawf-side territory in ATL rap.

Galveston — the beach city an hour south of Houston.

Phonetic 'north' — North Atlanta / Gwinnett County.

Atlanta's uptown — money, nightlife, drip.

Houston's I-610 ring road; 'inner looper' = lives inside it.