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Alabama (/ˌæləˈbæmə/ AL-ə-BAM-ə) is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama is the 30th largest by area and the 24th-most populous of the 50 U.S. states.

Alabama is nicknamed the Yellowhammer State, after the state bird. Alabama is also known as the "Heart of Dixie" and the "Cotton State". The state has diverse geography, with the north dominated by the mountainous Tennessee Valley and the south by Mobile Bay, a historically significant port. Alabama's capital is Montgomery, and its largest city by population and area is Huntsville. Its oldest city is Mobile, founded by French colonists (Alabama Creoles) in 1702 as the capital of French Louisiana. Greater Birmingham is Alabama's largest metropolitan area and its economic center. Politically, as part of the Deep South, Alabama is predominantly a conservative state, and is known for its Southern culture. Within Alabama, American football, particularly at the college level, plays a major part of the state's culture.

Originally home to many native tribes, present-day Alabama was a Spanish territory beginning in the sixteenth century until the French acquired it in the early eighteenth century. The British won the territory in 1763 until losing it in the American Revolutionary War. Spain held Mobile as part of Spanish West Florida until 1813. In December 1819, Alabama was recognized as a state. During the antebellum period, Alabama was a major producer of cotton, and widely used African American slave labor. In 1861, the state seceded from the United States to become part of the Confederate States of America, with Montgomery acting as its first capital, and rejoined the Union in 1868. Following the American Civil War, Alabama would suffer decades of economic hardship, in part due to agriculture and a few cash crops being the main driver of the state's economy. Similar to other former slave states, Alabamian legislators employed Jim Crow laws from the late 19th century up until the 1960s. High-profile events such as the Selma to Montgomery march made the state a major focal point of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. (Full article...)

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The U.S. state of Alabama has 67 counties. Each county serves as the local level of government within its borders. The land enclosed by the present state borders was joined to the United States of America gradually. Following the American Revolutionary War, West Florida was ceded to Spain by treaty while the remainder was organized primarily as the Mississippi Territory, and later the Alabama Territory. The territorial assembly established some of the earliest county divisions that have survived to the present, including the earliest county formation, that of Washington County, created on June 4, 1800. In 1814, the Treaty of Fort Jackson opened the territory to American settlers, which in turn led to a more rapid rate of county creation. Alabama was admitted to the Union as the 22nd state in 1819. The Alabama state legislature formed additional counties from former native lands as the Indian Removal Act took effect and settlers populated different areas of Alabama. In 1820, Alabama had 29 counties. By 1830 there were 36 and Native Americans still occupied large areas of land in northeast and far western Alabama. By 1840, 49 counties had been created; 52 by 1850; 65 by 1870; and the present 67 counties by 1903. Houston County was the last county created in the state, on February 9, 1903.

According to 2023 U. S. Census data, the average population of Alabama's 67 counties is 76,246, with Jefferson County as the most populous (662,895), and Greene County (7,341) the least. The average land area is 756 sq mi (1,958 km²). The largest county is Baldwin (1,590 sq mi, 4,118 km²) and the smallest is Etowah (535 sq mi, 1,386 km²). The Constitution of Alabama requires that any new county in Alabama cover at least 600 square miles (1,600 km²) in area, effectively limiting the creation of new counties in the state. (Full article...)

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The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the U.S. state of Alabama in March 2020. As of January 10, 2022, the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADHP) reported nearly a million confirmed cases of COVID-19 (or 1 in 5 people) and 16,630 confirmed deaths. At 330 deaths per 100,000 Alabama has the highest death rate in the US along with Mississippi.

, Alabama has administered 473,199 COVID-19 vaccine doses, equivalent to 9.59% of the population. (Full article...)

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Image 1The Heflin-Torbert Judicial Building in Montgomery. It houses the Supreme Court of Alabama, Alabama Court of Civil Appeals, and Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals. (from Alabama)
Image 2William J. Samford Hall at Auburn University (from Alabama)
Image 3The main house, built in 1833, at Thornhill in Greene County. It is a former Black Belt plantation. (from Alabama)
Image 4Cathedral Caverns in Marshall County (from Alabama)
Image 5The inauguration of Jefferson Davis in Montgomery on February 18, 1861. (from History of Alabama)
Image 61725 map of Mobile, Alabama's first permanent European settlement (from History of Alabama)
Image 7Harrison Plaza at the University of North Alabama in Florence. The school was chartered as LaGrange College by the Alabama Legislature in 1830. (from Alabama)
Image 8Mobile is the birthplace of Mardi Gras in the U.S. (from Alabama)
Image 9Terminal at the Montgomery Regional Airport in Montgomery (from Alabama)
Image 10Mercedes-Benz U.S. International in Tuscaloosa County was the first automotive facility to locate within the state. (from Alabama)
Image 11Dauphin Street in Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 12Flag of Alabama (from History of Alabama)
Image 13Map of Alabama from the National Atlas of the United States (2007) (from Alabama)
Image 14Aerial view of the port of Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 15The Moundville Archaeological Site in Hale County. It was occupied by Native Americans of the Mississippian culture from 1000 to 1450 CE. (from Alabama)
Image 16Interstate 59 (co-signed with Interstate 20) approaching Interstate 65 in downtown Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 17Regions Field in Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 18Shelby Hall, School of Computing, at the University of South Alabama in Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 19Regions-Harbert Plaza, Regions Center, and Wells Fargo Tower in Birmingham's financial district (from Alabama)
Image 20The Islamic Center of Tuscaloosa (from Alabama)
Image 21Von Braun Center in Huntsville (from Alabama)
Image 22Union Army troops occupying Courthouse Square in Huntsville, following its capture and occupation by federal forces in 1864 (from Alabama)
Image 23Highlands United Methodist Church in Birmingham, part of the Five Points South Historic District (from Alabama)
Image 24Alabama's beaches are one of the state's major tourist destinations. (from Alabama)
Image 25Alabama's population density, 2010 (from Alabama)
Image 26Cliffs at the rim of the Wetumpka meteorite crater (from Alabama)
Image 27Ono Island in Baldwin County (from Alabama)
Image 28The Natural Bridge Rock in Winston County is the longest natural bridge east of the Rockies. (from Alabama)
Image 29Artists conception of Moundville, a Mississippian culture site on the Black Warrior River in Hale County (from History of Alabama)
Image 301823 Map of Alabama (from History of Alabama)

Map of counties in Alabama by racial plurality, per the 2020 census

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Image 32Senator Doug Jones won a special election in 2017. (from Alabama)
Image 33The Space Shuttle Enterprise being tested at Marshall Space Flight Center in 1978 (from Alabama)
Image 34Tornado damage in Phil Campbell following the statewide April 27, 2011, tornado outbreak (from Alabama)
Image 35Birmingham–Jefferson Convention Complex in Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 36Airbus Mobile Engineering Center at the Brookley Aeroplex in Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 37Blast furnaces such as the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company's Ensley Works made Birmingham an important center for iron production in the early 20th century. (from History of Alabama)
Image 38Ethnic origins in Alabama (from Alabama)
Image 39The former Mount Sinai School in rural Autauga County, completed in 1919. It was one of the 387 Rosenwald Schools built in the state. (from Alabama)
Image 40Mississippi Territory changes 1798–1817. (from History of Alabama)
Image 41Monte Sano State Park in Huntsville (from Alabama)
Image 42Temple B'Nai Sholom in Huntsville, established in 1876. It is the oldest synagogue building in continuous use in the state. (from Alabama)
Image 43The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail has a large economic impact on the state. (from Alabama)
Image 44The Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, one of the largest shopping centers in the southeast (from Alabama)
Image 45The State Capitol Building in Montgomery, completed in 1851 (from Alabama)
Image 46Members of the Alabama state legislature on the steps of the Capitol in Montgomery during Reconstruction (1872) (from History of Alabama)
Image 47Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama in Montgomery in 2010 (from Alabama)
Image 48Lighthouse on Guntersville Lake (from Alabama)
Image 49Vestavia Hills High School in the suburbs of Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 50A stand of Cahaba lilies (Hymenocallis coronaria) in the Cahaba River, within the Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge (from Alabama)
Image 51Bryant–Denny Stadium at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa (from Alabama)
Image 52The developing skyline of Birmingham in 1915 (from Alabama)
Image 53Republican Kay Ivey is the governor of Alabama as of 2024. (from Alabama)
Image 54Artist's conception of the Taskigi Site, a fortified mound and village near Wetumpka, Alabama (from History of Alabama)

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... that Jack Biddle was the first and only person to be elected to the Alabama Legislature as a Democratic, Republican, and independent representative?
... that Freetown, Alabama, was founded by free and formerly enslaved African Americans in Alabama, whose church, built in 1929, burned down in 2022?
... that Symphyotrichum kentuckiense, the Kentucky aster, is only found on limestone cedar glades and limestone roadsides in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee?
... that Lieutenant Governor of Alabama Will Ainsworth started his career as a youth pastor before co-founding a hunting lodge?
... that an Alabama radio station was described by its program director as a "no-format mess"?
... that Rick Rehm attributed his surprise victory in an Alabama election to grassroots campaigning, while his opponent attributed it to straight-ticket voting?

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