#geography
42 words tagged “geography”
Atlanta's nickname for the Chattahoochee River.
Welsh for a coastal salt marsh — the flat wet land where sea meets field.
The remote inland interior.
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.
The countryside / wilderness.
Postcode turf claimed by a gang.
A waterhole in a dry riverbed.
The twin bridges carrying I-10 across Lake Pontchartrain to Slidell.
A fenced field of land.
'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 remote, far-off place; the middle of nowhere.
A pool at the foot of a waterfall — sometimes the falls themselves.
Atlanta Police Department's Westside / Southwest zone.
Far from civilisation.
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.
Australia (and NZ).
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.
The city.
A historic NOLA neighborhood — Marigny, Tremé, St. John, the whole crew.
Old National Highway — south metro Atlanta strip.
An extremely remote place.
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.
A small side street, lane or road.
Phonetic 'north' — North Atlanta / Gwinnett County.