Chattanooga, Tennessee

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Chattanooga is the fourth-largest city in the state of Tennessee in the United States of America, with an estimated population of 168,293. The city straddles the Tennessee River in the southeast corner of the state, on the border with Georgia. It is the government seat of Hamilton County. About one half million residents live in the Chattanooga metro area.

Chattanooga is best known around the world as the subject of Glenn Miller's big band jazz standard, "Chattanooga Choo Choo." Battles in and around Chattanooga were some of the bloodiest of the American Civil War.