This is about a 3 1/2 hour drive.
West To be exact, it is 85° West of true North.
Washington is in the Pacific Time Zone. Central and western Tennessee are in the Central Time Zone. Nashville and Memphis are in the Central Time Zone. Eastern Tennessee is in the Eastern Time Zone. Knoxville is in the Eastern Time Zone. If it is noon in Washington when you arrive in Nashville or Memphis, it would be 2:00 P.M. in Nashville and Memphis. If it is noon in Washington when you arrive in Knoxville, it would be 3:00 P.M. in Knoxville.
Nashville is the closest city in Tennessee to Louisville, KY. Knoxville would also be a city in Tennessee that is close to Louisville, KY.
Just from driving through it, I would say mostly rural. There is Knoxville on the Eastern border and Nashville and Memphis at the West, but not much in between that is Urban.
WEST. (Best answer). The previous answer does not answer the question.
No, if you went from Nashville to Memphis you would be going in the complete opposite direction from the Smokey mountains. Nashville is in the very middle section of the state of Tennessee. Going from Nashville to Memphis would take you a straight shot west. The Smokey mountains are nearly a straight shot east of Nashville. So from Nashville you would actually go toward Knoxville to get to the Smokey mountains. Eventually you would vear north just slightly.
Travelling from Austin, Texas to Nashville, Tennessee you would travel northeast 860 miles through Arkansas and then across Tennessee on Interstate 40.
Naturally, it would depend on where you start.
Dublin in Ireland is 6 hours ahead of Nashville in Tennessee, so at 10pm in Dublin it would be 4pm in Nashville.
It would take about 51 minutes to fly from Frankfort, Kentucky to Nashville, Tennessee. There is approximately 176 miles between the two locations.
Nashville is 220 miles west of Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Travelling from Gatlinburg to Florida you would travel south on the I-75 and would not travel through Nashville.
Knoxville, Tennessee is a great place to live and work. A large number of jobs can be found online at Monster, indeed, knoxville.jobs, and careerbuilder.