Alabama
Metropolitan Alabama
Jefferson

Birmingham

Birmingham is the largest city in , 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 Birmingham of today will find a pleasant green city of ridges, valleys, attractive views, and friendly, hospitable people.
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  • Type: City with 201,000 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Jefferson County, Alabama, United States
  • Also known as: “Birmingham, AL”, “Birmingham, Alabama”, and “The Magic City”
  • Postal codes: 35201-35224, 35226, 35228, 35229, 35231-35238, 35243, 35244, 35246, 35249, 35253-35255, 35259-35261, 35266, 35282, 35283, 35285, 35287, 35288, and 35290-35298
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Birmingham Museum of Art and Protective Stadium.

Museum
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The is a museum in Birmingham, Alabama. Its collection includes more than 24,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and decorative arts representing various cultures, including , , , , Pre-Columbian, and Native American.

Stadium
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is an outdoor multi-purpose stadium located in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, United States. It is owned and operated by the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center Authority.

Railway station
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is a train station in Birmingham, Alabama. It is a service stop for Amtrak's Crescent, which provides daily service between , , and .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Avondale and Elyton.

Neighborhood
was a company town built around the Mills east of Birmingham, Alabama in . The town was incorporated on March 18, 1887.

Hamlet
, , was the county seat of from 1821 to 1873. It was the county's second seat, after Carrollsville. In 1873 the courthouse was moved to Birmingham.

Birmingham

Latitude
33.5248° or 33° 31′ 29″ north
Longitude
-86.8127° or 86° 48′ 46″ west
Population
201,000
Elevation
614 feet (187 metres)
IATA airport code
BHM
United Nations Location Code
US BHM
Open location code
865MG5FP+WW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153466590
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4049979
Wiki­data ID
Q79867
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Birmingham” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Birmingham, Alabama”
  • Afrikaans: “Birmingham”
  • Albanian: “Birmingham”
  • Arabic: “برمنغهام، ألاباما”
  • Arabic: “برمنغهام”
  • Arabic: “بيرمينغهام”
  • Aragonese: “Birmingham”
  • Armenian: “Բիրմինգհեմ”
  • Arpitan: “Birmingham”
  • Asturian: “Birmingham, Alabama”
  • Asturian: “Birmingham”
  • Azerbaijani: “Birminqem”
  • Balinese: “Birmingham, Alabama”
  • Bashkir: “Бирмингем”
  • Basque: “Birmingham”
  • Bavarian: “Birmingham”
  • Belarusian: “Бірмінггэм”
  • Belarusian: “Бірмінгем”
  • Bengali: “বার্মিংহাম, অ্যালাবামা”
  • Bengali: “বার্মিংহাম”
  • Bosnian: “Birmingham”
  • Breton: “Birmingham”
  • Bulgarian: “Бирмингам”
  • Catalan: “Birmingham”
  • Cebuano: “Birmingham”
  • Central Kurdish: “بێرمینگھام، ئالاباما”
  • Chechen: “Бирмингем”
  • Chinese: “Birmingham”
  • Chinese: “伯明罕”
  • Chinese: “伯明翰/伯明罕”
  • Chinese: “伯明翰”
  • Cornish: “Birmingham, Alabama”
  • Cornish: “Birmingham”
  • Corsican: “Birmingham”
  • Croatian: “Birmingham, Alabama”
  • Croatian: “Birmingham”
  • Czech: “Birmingham”
  • Dagbani: “Birmingham”
  • Danish: “Birmingham, Alabama”
  • Danish: “Birmingham”
  • Danish: “The Magic City”
  • Dutch: “Birmingham”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “برمنجهام”
  • Esperanto: “Birmingham”
  • Estonian: “Birmingham”
  • Faroese: “Birmingham”
  • Finnish: “Birmingham”
  • French: “Birmingham (Alabama)”
  • French: “Birmingham”
  • Friulian: “Birmingham”
  • Galician: “Birmingham, Alabama”
  • Galician: “Birmingham”
  • Georgian: “ბირმინგემი”
  • German: “Birmingham, Alabama”
  • German: “Birmingham”
  • Gilaki: “بيرمنگام”
  • Greek: “Μπέρμιγχαμ”
  • Gujarati: “બર્મિંગહામ”
  • Haitian: “Birmingham”
  • Hebrew: “בירמינגהאם”
  • Hebrew: “ברמינגהאם”
  • Hindi: “बर्मिंघम”
  • Hungarian: “Birmingham”
  • Icelandic: “Birmingham”
  • Ido: “Birmingham, Alabama”
  • Ido: “Birmingham”
  • Indonesian: “Birmingham, Alabama”
  • Indonesian: “Birmingham”
  • Interlingua: “Birmingham”
  • Interlingue: “Birmingham”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐱᕆᒦᖕᓵᒻ”
  • Irish: “Birmingham, Alabama”
  • Irish: “Birmingham”
  • Italian: “Birmingham”
  • Japanese: “バーミンガム”
  • Japanese: “バーミングハム”
  • Japanese: “バーミンハム”
  • Kannada: “ಬರ್ಮಿನ್ಗ್ ಹ್ಯಾಮ್”
  • Kongo: “Birmingham”
  • Korean: “버밍햄”
  • Kurdish: “Birmingham”
  • Ladin: “Birmingham”
  • Latin: “Birmingham”
  • Latvian: “Bērmingema”
  • Latvian: “Birmingema”
  • Ligurian: “Birmingham”
  • Limburgan: “Birmingham”
  • Lithuanian: “Birmingamas”
  • Low German: “Birmingham”
  • Luxembourgish: “Birmingham”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Birmingham”
  • Macedonian: “Бирмингем”
  • Malagasy: “Birmingham, Alabama”
  • Malagasy: “Birmingham”
  • Malay: “Birmingham, Alabama”
  • Malay: “Birmingham”
  • Malayalam: “ബെർമിങ്‌ഹാം, അലബാമ”
  • Malayalam: “ബെർമിങ്‌ഹാം”
  • Marathi: “बर्मिंगहॅम”
  • Mazanderani: “برمینگهم”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Birmingham”
  • Minangkabau: “Birmingham”
  • Mingrelian: “ბირმინგემი”
  • Mirandese: “Birmingham”
  • Moksha: “Бирмингэм”
  • Narom: “Birmingham”
  • Navajo: “Dził Deeshchiiʼí”
  • Neapolitan: “Birmingham”
  • Nepali: “बर्मिङ्गह्याम,अलाबामा”
  • Nepali: “बर्मिङ्गह्याम”
  • Newari: “Birmingham, Alabama”
  • Newari: “बर्मिङ्गह्याम (अलाबामा)”
  • Newari: “बर्मिङ्गह्याम, अलाबामा”
  • Newari: “बर्मिङ्गह्याम”
  • Northern Frisian: “Birmingham”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Birmingham i Alabama”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Birmingham”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Birmingham i Alabama”
  • Norwegian: “Birmingham”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Birmingham”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Beormingaham on Ælebæman”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Beormingaham”
  • Ossetian: “Бирмингем”
  • Persian: “برمینگام”
  • Persian: “برمینگم، آلاباما”
  • Persian: “برمینگم”
  • Persian: “برمینگهم، الاباما”
  • Persian: “برمینگهم”
  • Persian: “بیرمنگام، آلاباما”
  • Persian: “بیرمنگام، الاباما”
  • Persian: “بیرمنگام”
  • Persian: “بیرمنگهام”
  • Picard: “Birmingham”
  • Piemontese: “Birmingham”
  • Polish: “Birmingham”
  • Portuguese: “Birmingham”
  • Quechua: “Birmingham”
  • Romanian: “Birmingham, Alabama”
  • Romanian: “Birmingham”
  • Romansh: “Birmingham”
  • Russian: “Бирмингем, Алабама”
  • Russian: “Бирмингем”
  • Sardinian: “Birmingham”
  • Scots: “Birmingham, Alabama”
  • Scots: “Birmingham”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Birmingham”
  • Serbian: “Birmingham”
  • Serbian: “Бермингам”
  • Serbian: “Бермингхам”
  • Serbian: “Бирмингем”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Birmingham, Alabama”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Birmingham”
  • Sicilian: “Birmingham”
  • Silesian: “Birmingham”
  • Sinhala: “බ්‍රිමින්ග්හැම්”
  • Slovak: “Birmingham”
  • Slovenian: “Birmingham, Alabama”
  • Slovenian: “Birmingham”
  • South Azerbaijani: “برمینقم، آلاباما”
  • Spanish: “Birmingham (Alabama)”
  • Spanish: “Birmingham”
  • Spanish: “La Ciudad Mágica”
  • Swahili: “Birmingham, Alabama”
  • Swahili: “Birmingham”
  • Swedish: “Birmingham, Alabama”
  • Swedish: “Birmingham”
  • Swiss German: “Birmingham”
  • Tagalog: “Birmingham, Alabama”
  • Tagalog: “Birmingham”
  • Tajik: “Бирмингем”
  • Tamil: “பர்மிங்காம்”
  • Tatar: “Бирмиңһәм”
  • Telugu: “బర్మింగ్హామ్”
  • Thai: “เบอร์มิงแฮม”
  • Tibetan: “རྦིར་མིང་ཧམ།”
  • Turkish: “Birmingham, Alabama”
  • Turkish: “Birmingham”
  • Ukrainian: “Бірмінгем”
  • Ukrainian: “Бірмінґем”
  • Urdu: “برمنگھم، الاباما”
  • Urdu: “برمنگھم”
  • Uzbek: “Birmingham”
  • Venetian: “Birmingham”
  • Veps: “Birminhem”
  • Vietnamese: “Birmingham, Alabama”
  • Vietnamese: “Birmingham”
  • Vlaams: “Birmingham”
  • Volapük: “Birmingham”
  • Walloon: “Birmingham”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Birmingham, Alabama”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Birmingham”
  • Welsh: “Birmingham, Alabama”
  • Welsh: “Birmingham”
  • Western Frisian: “Birmingham”
  • Western Mari: “Бирмингем”
  • Wolof: “Birmingham”
  • Wu Chinese: “伯明翰 (阿拉巴马州)”
  • Wu Chinese: “伯明翰（阿拉巴马州）”
  • Yue Chinese: “伯明翰”
  • Zulu: “Birmingham”
  • “Birmingham”

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