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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  • City with about 1,140,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 460 feet (140 metres)
  • …has the IATA airport code BHX
  • …was formerly known as “Beormingahām”
  • Description: large city in the West Midlands region of England; classed as the ‘second city’ of the United Kingdom, behind London
  • Also known as
    “Birmingham, England”
    “Birmingham, UK”
    “Birmingham, West Midlands”
    “Brum”
    “Brummagem”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include St Andrew’s and Villa Park.
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St Andrew's, known since 2024 for sponsorship reasons as St.
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is a football stadium in , Birmingham, with a seating capacity of 43,205.
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is a and art gallery in Birmingham, England.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Edgbaston and Small Heath.
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is a suburb of Birmingham, , England.
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is an inner-city area in south-east…
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Birmingham, in the , is Britain's second-largest city.

Birmingham

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Latitude
52.4797° or 52° 28′ 47″ north
Longitude
-1.9027° or 1° 54′ 10″ west
UN/LOCODE
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: “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”
  • Emilian: “Birmingham”
  • 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”
  • Jèrriais: “Bermingame”
  • Jèrriais: “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”
  • 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): “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”
  • Samogitian: “Bėrmingams”
  • Sanskrit: “बर्मिङ्घम्”
  • Sardinian: “Birmingham”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Birmingham”
  • Scots: “Birmingham”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Birmingham”
  • Serbian: “Birmingham”
  • Serbian: “Бирмингем”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Birmingham”
  • Sicilian: “Birmingham”
  • Silesian: “Birmingham”
  • Sindhi: “برمنگهم”
  • 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”
  • “ma tomo Peminan”

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