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Alabama is a state in the . Alabama is known for its civil rights history and scenic beauty, and has a lot to offer those who enjoy the great outdoors, from Gulf Coast beaches to 40 National and stare parks.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Montgomery and Birmingham.

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is the capital of Alabama, in the region of the state. has also been recognized nationally for its downtown revitalization and new urbanism projects.

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is the largest city in Alabama, and its cultural and economic nucleus. While it's best remembered as the site of protest, bombings, and other racial tumult during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, visitors to the of today will find a pleasant green city of ridges, valleys, attractive views, and friendly, hospitable people.

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is a city in the state of Alabama in the South of the United States of America with almost a half million people in the metro area. is a historic, diverse port city with a strong southern culture and heritage.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Metropolitan Alabama and River Heritage.

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is the central region of the U.S. state of Alabama. As the name suggests, is home to Alabama's biggest urban area, the Birmingham metropolitan area, but also includes other towns and rural areas.

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is the southern region of Alabama, excluding the region in the south west. It includes the Wiregrass region of southeastern Alabama.

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, aka North Alabama, is a region at the southern edge of the Appalachian known for its abundant natural beauty, including many caves, lakes, and waterfalls.

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is a region in Alabama. It consists of Baldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Mobile, Monroe, Washington counties.

Alabama

Latitude of center
33.2589° or 33° 15′ 32″ north
Longitude of center
-86.8295° or 86° 49′ 46″ west
Population
5,160,000
Elevation
463 feet (141 metres)
Abbreviation
“AL”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316647532
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
4829764
Wiki­data ID
Q173
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Alabama” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Alabama”
  • Albanian: “Alabama”
  • Amharic: “አላባማ”
  • Arabic: “ألاباما”
  • Aragonese: “Alabama”
  • Armenian: “Ալաբամա”
  • Arpitan: “Alabama”
  • Asturian: “Alabama”
  • Aymara: “Alabama suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Alabama”
  • Balinese: “Alabama”
  • Bashkir: “Алабама”
  • Basque: “Alabama”
  • Bavarian: “Alabama”
  • Belarusian: “Алабама”
  • Bengali: “অ্যালাবামা”
  • Betawi: “Alabama”
  • Bhojpuri: “अलबामा”
  • Bishnupriya: “আলাবামা”
  • Bislama: “Alabama”
  • Bosnian: “Alabama”
  • Breton: “Alabama”
  • Bulgarian: “Алабама”
  • Burmese: “အလာဘားမားပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Alabama”
  • Cebuano: “Alabama”
  • Central Bikol: “Alabama”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەلاباما”
  • Chavacano: “Alabama”
  • Chechen: “Алабама”
  • Cherokee: “ᎠᎳᏆᎹ”
  • Cherokee: “ᎡᎳᏆᎹ”
  • Chinese: “Alabama”
  • Chinese: “亚拉巴马州”
  • Chinese: “阿拉巴馬州”
  • Chuvash: “Алабама”
  • Cornish: “Alabama”
  • Corsican: “Alabama”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Alabama”
  • Croatian: “Alabama”
  • Czech: “Alabama”
  • Czech: “State of Alabama”
  • Dagbani: “Alabama”
  • Danish: “AL”
  • Danish: “Alabama”
  • Danish: “State of Alabama”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Alabama”
  • Dutch: “AL”
  • Dutch: “Alabama”
  • Eastern Mari: “Алабама”
  • Eastern Mari: “Алабаме”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الاباما”
  • Esperanto: “AL”
  • Esperanto: “Alabamo”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝtato Alabamo”
  • Estonian: “Alabama”
  • Ewe: “Alabama”
  • Faroese: “Alabama”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Alabama”
  • Finnish: “Alabama”
  • French: “Alabama”
  • Friulian: “Alabama”
  • Gagauz: “Alabama”
  • Galician: “Alabama”
  • Gan Chinese: “阿拉巴馬州”
  • Georgian: “ალაბამა”
  • German: “Alabama”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Alabama”
  • Gilaki: “آلاباما”
  • Gothic: “𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌼𐌰”
  • Gothic: “𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌹𐌼𐌰”
  • Greek: “Αλαμπάμα”
  • Guarani: “Alavama”
  • Guarani: “Alaváma”
  • Gujarati: “અલાબામા”
  • Haitian: “Alabama”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Alabama”
  • Hausa: “Alabama”
  • Hawaiian: “‘Alapama”
  • Hawaiian: “ʻAlapama”
  • Hebrew: “אלבמה”
  • Hindi: “अलबामा”
  • Hindi: “अलाबामा”
  • Hungarian: “Alabama”
  • Icelandic: “Alabama”
  • Ido: “Alabama”
  • Igbo: “Alabama”
  • Iloko: “Alabama”
  • Inari Sami: “Alabama”
  • Indonesian: “Alabama”
  • Interlingua: “Alabama”
  • Interlingue: “Alabama”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐋᓛᐹᒫ”
  • Inupiaq: “Alabama”
  • Inupiaq: “Alapaama”
  • Irish: “Alabama”
  • Italian: “Alabama”
  • Japanese: “アラバマ”
  • Japanese: “アラバマ州”
  • Javanese: “Alabama”
  • Kabiyè: “Alabamaa”
  • Kabyle: “Alabama”
  • Kalmyk: “Алабам”
  • Kannada: “ಅಲಬಾಮ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Alabama”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Алабама”
  • Kazakh: “Алабама”
  • Kirghiz: “Алабама”
  • Komering: “Alabama”
  • Korean: “앨라배마 주”
  • Korean: “앨라배마”
  • Korean: “앨라배마주”
  • Kurdish: “Alabama”
  • Ladin: “Alabama”
  • Ladino: “Alabama”
  • Latin: “Alabama”
  • Latvian: “Alabama”
  • Lezghian: “Алабама”
  • Ligurian: “Alabama”
  • Ligurian: “Alabàma”
  • Limburgan: “Alabama”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Alabama”
  • Literary Chinese: “阿拉巴馬州”
  • Lithuanian: “Alabama”
  • Lojban: “alybamas”
  • Lombard: “Alabama”
  • Low German: “Alabama”
  • Lule Sami: “Alabama”
  • Luxembourgish: “Alabama”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Alabama”
  • Macedonian: “Алабама”
  • Maithili: “अलाबामा”
  • Malagasy: “Alabama”
  • Malay: “Alabama”
  • Malayalam: “അലബാമ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯑꯥꯂꯥꯕꯥꯃꯥ”
  • Manx: “AL”
  • Manx: “Alabama”
  • Manx: “Steat Alabama”
  • Manx: “US-AL”
  • Maori: “Alabama”
  • Maori: “Arapama”
  • Marathi: “अलाबामा”
  • Mazanderani: “آلاباما”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Alabama”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Alabama”
  • Minangkabau: “Alabama”
  • Mingrelian: “ალაბამა”
  • Mirandese: “Alabama”
  • Mongolian: “Алабама”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ألاباما”
  • Nauru: “Alabama”
  • Navajo: “Łeezh Łichxíiʼii Hahoodzo”
  • Neapolitan: “Alabama”
  • Nepali: “अलाबामा”
  • Nepali: “आलाबामा”
  • Newari: “अलाबामा”
  • Northern Frisian: “Alabama”
  • Northern Luri: “آلاباما”
  • Northern Sami: “Alabama”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “AL”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ala.”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alabama”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alabama”
  • Norwegian: “Alabama”
  • Novial: “Alabama”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Alabama”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܠܒܐܡܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ælebæma”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Alabama”
  • Ossetian: “Алабамæ”
  • Pali: “अलाबामा”
  • Pampanga: “Alabama”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਲਾਬਾਮਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Alabama”
  • Persian: “آلاباما”
  • Picard: “Alabama”
  • Piemontese: “Alabama”
  • Pite Sami: “Alabama”
  • Polish: “Alabama”
  • Portuguese: “Alabama”
  • Portuguese: “Estado do Alabama”
  • Pushto: “آلاباما”
  • Quechua: “Alabama suyu”
  • Romanian: “Alabama”
  • Romanian: “Алабама”
  • Romansh: “Alabama”
  • Russia Buriat: “Алабама”
  • Russian: “Алабама”
  • Samoan: “Alabama”
  • Samoan: “Alapama”
  • Samogitian: “Alabama”
  • Sanskrit: “अलबामा”
  • Sanskrit: “अलाबामा”
  • Santali: “ᱟᱞᱟᱵᱟᱢᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Alabama”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Alabama”
  • Scots: “Alabama”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Alabama”
  • Serbian: “Алабама”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Alabama”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Алабама”
  • Sicilian: “Alabama”
  • Silesian: “Alabama”
  • Sindhi: “الاباما”
  • Sinhala: “ඇලබාමා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Alabama”
  • Slovak: “Alabama”
  • Slovenian: “Alabama”
  • Somali: “Alabama”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آلاباما ایالتی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آلاباما”
  • Southern Sami: “Alabama”
  • Spanish: “AL”
  • Spanish: “Alabama, Estados Unidos”
  • Spanish: “Alabama”
  • Spanish: “Corazón de Dixie”
  • Spanish: “El estado de Yellowhammer”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Alabama”
  • Swahili: “Alabama”
  • Swedish: “Alabama”
  • Swiss German: “Alabama”
  • Tagalog: “Alabama”
  • Tajik: “Алабама”
  • Talysh: “Alabama”
  • Tamil: “அலபாமா”
  • Tatar: “Алабама”
  • Telugu: “అలబామా”
  • Thai: “รัฐแอละแบมา”
  • Tibetan: “ཨ་ལ་པ་མ།”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻAlapama”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Alabama”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Alabama”
  • Turkish: “AL”
  • Turkish: “Ala.”
  • Turkish: “Alabama eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Alabama, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri”
  • Turkish: “Alabama”
  • Turkish: “State of Alabama”
  • Turkish: “US-AL”
  • Turkmen: “Alabama”
  • Uighur: “Alabama Shitati”
  • Uighur: “ئالاباما شىتاتى”
  • Ukrainian: “Алабама”
  • Ume Sami: “Alabama”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Alabama”
  • Urdu: “الاباما”
  • Uzbek: “Alabama”
  • Venetian: “Alabama”
  • Veps: “Alabam”
  • Vietnamese: “Alabama”
  • Vlaams: “Alabama”
  • Vlax Romani: “Alabama”
  • Volapük: “Alabama”
  • Volapük: “Lalabamän”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Alabama”
  • Welsh: “Alabama”
  • Western Frisian: “Alabama”
  • Western Mari: “Алабама”
  • Western Panjabi: “الاباما”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿拉巴马”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿拉巴马州”
  • Xhosa: “I-Alabhama”
  • Yakut: “Алабама”
  • Yiddish: “אלאבאמא”
  • Yoruba: “Alabama”
  • Yoruba: “Ìpínlẹ̀ Alabama”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿拉巴馬州”
  • Zeeuws: “Alabama”
  • Zhuang: “Alabama”
  • “Alabama”
  • “Alabàma”
  • “ma Alapama”
  • “Алабама”
  • “अलबामा”

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