Birmingham is the largest city in the state of Alabama and also acts as the county seat of the County of Jefferson. The city has a population of around 212,237 according to the 2010 United States Census. The Metropolitan area of the Birmingham-Hoover region has a population of around 1.2 million, which is more than one quarter of the population of Alabama. The city was named after the city of Birmingham in England, a very similar city to its American counterpart. The city is situated in the Jones Valley, a beautiful region flanked by many parallel mountain ranges. The city is also close to the popular red mountain and the sand mountain.
The city of Birmingham was founded in the year 1871, after the end of the American Civil War. The city at the time of its founding was much smaller than it is today and as the years passed the city grew by merging with the surrounding towns and small neighborhoods. The city slowly transformed into a railroad and industrial transportation powerhouse. The people who settled in this city were of English ancestry. The city was however planned to be a place for steel mills that employee cheap African American labor from the Southern Parts of Alabama, in hopes of gaining a competitive advantage over other cities in the Northeaster and Midwest parts of United States.
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