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Birmingham

Birmingham, in the , is Britain's second-largest city. Known in the Victorian era as the "City of a Thousand Trades" and the "Workshop of the World", Brum, as locals call the city, is enjoying a 21st-century resurgence as a great shopping and cultural destination.
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  • Type: City with 1,040,000 residents
  • Description: city in the West Midlands, England
  • Also known as: “Birmingham, England”, “Birmingham, UK”, “Birmingham, West Midlands”, “Brum”, and “Brummagem”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include St Andrew’s and Villa Park.

Stadium
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St Andrew's, known since 2024 for sponsorship reasons as St. Andrew's @ Knighthead Park, is an association football stadium in the district of Birmingham, England.

Stadium
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is a football stadium in , Birmingham, with a seating capacity of 43,205. It has been the home of Premier League club Aston Villa since 1897.

Museum
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is a and art gallery in Birmingham, England. It has a collection of international importance covering fine art, ceramics, metalwork, jewellery, natural history, archaeology, ethnography, local history and industrial history.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bordesley Green and Aston.

Suburb
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is an inner-city area of Birmingham, England about two miles east of the city centre. It also contains a road of the same name. It is in the Ward which also covers some of and Little Bromwich.

Suburb
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is an area of inner Birmingham, in the metropolitan of England, and historically within . Located immediately to the north-west of Central Birmingham, constitutes a ward within the metropolitan authority.

Village
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is a ward in Birmingham, within the formal district of Hodge Hill, roughly two miles north-east of Birmingham city centre, England. covers the areas of Birmingham that lie between , , Stechford and Hodge Hill.

Birmingham

Latitude
52.4797° or 52° 28′ 47″ north
Longitude
-1.9027° or 1° 54′ 10″ west
Population
1,040,000
Elevation
489 feet (149 metres)
IATA airport code
BHX
United Nations Location Code
GB BHM
Open location code
9C4WF3HW+VW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 17861291
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2655603
Wiki­data ID
Q2256
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Birmingham” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Birmingham”
  • Albanian: “Birmingham”
  • Amharic: “በርሚንግሃም”
  • Arabic: “برمنغهام”
  • Arabic: “برمنهام”
  • Arabic: “برمينغهام”
  • Aragonese: “Birmingham”
  • Armenian: “Բիրմինգհեմ”
  • Arpitan: “Birmingham”
  • Asturian: “Birmingham”
  • Aymara: “Birmingham”
  • Azerbaijani: “Birmingem”
  • Azerbaijani: “Birminhem”
  • Balinese: “Birmingham”
  • Bashkir: “Бирмингем”
  • Basque: “Birmingham”
  • Bavarian: “Birmingham”
  • Belarusian: “Бірмінггэм”
  • Belarusian: “Бірмінгем, Англія”
  • Belarusian: “Бірмінгем”
  • Bengali: “বার্মিংহাম”
  • Bosnian: “Birmingham”
  • Breton: “Birmingham”
  • Bulgarian: “Бирмингам”
  • Burmese: “ဘာမင်ဂမ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Birmingham”
  • Cebuano: “Birmingham (kapital sa kondado sa Hiniusang Gingharian)”
  • Cebuano: “Birmingham”
  • Central Kurdish: “بێرمینگام”
  • Chechen: “Бирмингем”
  • Chinese: “Birmingham”
  • Chinese: “伍爾佛漢普頓”
  • Chinese: “伯明罕”
  • Chinese: “伯明翰”
  • Chinese: “伯明翰市”
  • Chuvash: “Бирмингем”
  • Cornish: “Birmingham”
  • Corsican: “Birmingham”
  • Croatian: “Birmingham”
  • Czech: “Birmingham”
  • Danish: “Birmingham”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Birmingham”
  • Dutch: “Birmingham”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “برمنجهام”
  • Esperanto: “Birmingham”
  • Esperanto: “Birminghamo”
  • Estonian: “Birmingham”
  • Faroese: “Birmingham”
  • Finnish: “Birmingham”
  • French: “Birmingham”
  • Friulian: “Birmingham”
  • Galician: “Birmingham”
  • Georgian: “ბირმინგემი”
  • German: “Birmingham”
  • Gilaki: “بیرمنگام”
  • Greek: “Μπέρμιγχαμ, Δυτικά Μίντλαντς”
  • Greek: “Μπέρμιγχαμ”
  • Guarani: “Birmingham”
  • Gujarati: “બર્મિંગહામ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Birmingham”
  • Hausa: “Birmingham”
  • Hebrew: “ברמינגהאם”
  • Hindi: “बर्मिंघम”
  • Hungarian: “Birmingham”
  • Icelandic: “Birmingham”
  • Ido: “Birmingham”
  • Indonesian: “Birmingham”
  • Interlingua: “Birmingham”
  • Interlingue: “Birmingham”
  • Irish: “Birmingham”
  • Italian: “Birmingham”
  • Japanese: “シティ・オブ・バーミンガム”
  • Japanese: “バーミンガム”
  • Javanese: “Birmingham”
  • Kabyle: “Birmingham”
  • Kannada: “ಬರ್ಮಿಂಗ್ಹ್ಯಾಮ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Birmingham qalası”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Birmingham”
  • Kazakh: “Бирмингем”
  • Kirghiz: “Бирмингем шаары”
  • Kirghiz: “Бирмиңгем”
  • Kongo: “Birmingham”
  • Korean: “버밍엄”
  • Kurdish: “Birmingham”
  • Ladin: “Birmingham”
  • Latin: “Birminghamia”
  • Latvian: “Bērmingema”
  • Latvian: “Birmingema”
  • Ligurian: “Birmingham”
  • Limburgan: “Birmingham”
  • Lithuanian: “Birmingamas”
  • Low German: “Birmingham”
  • Luxembourgish: “Birmingham”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Birmingham”
  • Macedonian: “Бирмингем”
  • Malagasy: “Birmingham”
  • Malay: “Birmingham”
  • Malayalam: “ബിർമിങ്ഹാം”
  • Maltese: “Birmingham”
  • Manipuri: “ꯏꯪꯂꯦꯟꯗꯒꯤ ꯕꯔꯃꯤꯡꯘꯝ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯕꯔꯃꯤꯡꯘꯝ”
  • Manx: “Birmingham”
  • Marathi: “बर्मिंगहॅम”
  • Mazanderani: “بیرمنگام”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Birmingham”
  • Minangkabau: “Birmingham”
  • Moksha: “Бирмингэм”
  • Mongolian: “Бирмингем”
  • Mossi: “Birmingham”
  • Narom: “Bermingame”
  • Narom: “Birmingham”
  • Neapolitan: “Birmingham”
  • Nepali: “बर्मिङ्घम”
  • Northern Frisian: “Birmingham”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Birmingham”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Birmingham”
  • Norwegian: “Birmingham”
  • Novial: “Birmingham”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Birmingham”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Beormingaham”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Beormingahām”
  • Ossetian: “Бирмингем”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਰਮਿੰਘਮ”
  • Persian: “بیرمنگام”
  • Picard: “Birmingham”
  • Piemontese: “Birmingham”
  • Polish: “Birmingham”
  • Portuguese: “Birmingham, Inglaterra”
  • Portuguese: “Birmingham, Midlands Ocidentais”
  • Portuguese: “Birmingham”
  • Quechua: “Birmingham”
  • Romanian: “Birmingham”
  • Romansh: “Birmingham”
  • Russian: “Бирмингем”
  • Samogitian: “Bėrmėngams”
  • Sanskrit: “बर्मिङ्घम्”
  • Sardinian: “Birmingham”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Birmingham”
  • Scots: “Birmingham”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Birmingham”
  • Serbian: “Birmingham”
  • Serbian: “Бирмингем”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Birmingham”
  • Sicilian: “Birmingham”
  • Silesian: “Birmingham”
  • Sinhala: “බර්මින්ග්හැම්”
  • Slovak: “Birmingham”
  • Slovenian: “Birmingham”
  • Somali: “Birmingham”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بیرمینگام”
  • Spanish: “Birmingham (Inglaterra)”
  • Spanish: “Birmingham”
  • Swahili: “Birmingham”
  • Swedish: “Birmingham”
  • Swiss German: “Birmingham”
  • Sylheti: “ꠛꠣꠞꠝꠤꠋꠀꠝ”
  • Sylheti: “ꠛꠣꠞꠝꠤꠋꠢꠣꠝ”
  • Tagalog: “Birmingham”
  • Tajik: “Бирмингем”
  • Talysh: “Birmingem”
  • Tamil: “பர்மிங்காம்”
  • Tatar: “Birminghem”
  • Tatar: “Бөрмиңем”
  • Telugu: “బర్మింగ్‌హామ్”
  • Thai: “เบอร์มิงแฮม”
  • Tumbuka: “Birmingham”
  • Turkish: “Birmingham”
  • Twi: “Birmingham”
  • Uighur: “Birmin’gxam”
  • Ukrainian: “Бірмінгем”
  • Ukrainian: “Бірмінґем”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Birmingham”
  • Urdu: “برمنگھم”
  • Uzbek: “Birmingem”
  • Venetian: “Birmingham”
  • Veps: “Birmingem”
  • Veps: “Börmingem”
  • Vietnamese: “Birmingham”
  • Vlaams: “Birmingham”
  • Vlax Romani: “Birmingham”
  • Volapük: “Birmingham”
  • Walloon: “Birmingham”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Birmingham”
  • Welsh: “Birmingham”
  • Western Frisian: “Birmingham”
  • Western Panjabi: “برمنگم”
  • Wolof: “Birmingham”
  • Wu Chinese: “伯明翰”
  • Yiddish: “בירמינגהאם”
  • Yue Chinese: “伯明翰”
  • Zulu: “Birmingham”
  • “Bėrmingams”
  • “Birmingham”
  • “ma tomo Peminan”

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