Birmingham
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Birmingham is a muckle ceety in Ingland, an is Ingland's seicont ceety. It haes a population o aboot 1,000,000 fowk.
Quick Facts Ceety o Birmingham, Sovereign state ...
Ceety o Birmingham | ||||||||
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Ceety an Metropolitan borough | ||||||||
City of Birmingham | ||||||||
Clockwise, frae tap: skyline o Birmingham Ceety Centre frae the sooth, Birmingham Toun Haw, St Martin's kirk an Selfridges depairtment store in the Bull Ring, the Varsity o Birmingham, St Philip's Cathedral, the Leebrar o Birmingham | ||||||||
Eik-name(s): "Brum", "The Seicont Ceety", "Ceety o a thoosan trades", "Wirkshop o the Warld” | ||||||||
Motto(s): Forward | ||||||||
Birmingham shown athin Ingland an the Wast Midlands | ||||||||
Coordinates: 52°28′59″N 1°53′37″W | ||||||||
Sovereign state | Unitit Kinrick | |||||||
Constituent kintra | Ingland | |||||||
Region | Wast Midlands | |||||||
Ceremonial coonty | Wast Midlands | |||||||
Admeen HQ | The Cooncil Hoose | |||||||
Foondit | 7t century | |||||||
Municipal borough | 1838 | |||||||
Ceety | 1889 | |||||||
Govrenment | ||||||||
• Teep | Metropolitan borough | |||||||
• Bodi | Birmingham Ceety Cooncil | |||||||
• Laird Mayor | Anita Ward (L) | |||||||
• Cooncil Leader | Mike Whitby (C) | |||||||
• Cooncil Control | Conservative / Leeberal Democrat Coalition | |||||||
• MPs | Richard Burden (L) Liam Byrne (L) Jack Dromey (L) Roger Godsiff (L) John Hemming (LD) Khalid Mahmood (L) Shabana Mahmood (L) Steve McCabe (L) Andrew Mitchell (C) Gisela Stuart (L) | |||||||
Area | ||||||||
• Total | 267.77 km2 (103.39 sq mi) | |||||||
Elevation | 140 m (460 ft) | |||||||
Population (2008 est.) | ||||||||
• Total | (Ranked 1st) | |||||||
• Density | 3739/km2 (9,680/sq mi) | |||||||
• Conurbation | 2284093 | |||||||
• Ethnicity (2009 estimates[1]) | 68.0% White (63.3% White Breetish) 19.7% Sooth Asie 6.6% Black 3.1% Mixed Race 1.1% Cheenese 1.5% Other | |||||||
Time zone | UTC+0 (Greenwich Mean Time) | |||||||
• Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (Breetish Simmer Time) | |||||||
Postcode | B | |||||||
Area code(s) | 0121 | |||||||
ISO 3166 code | GB-BIR | |||||||
ONS code | 00CN | |||||||
OS grid reference | SP066868 | |||||||
NUTS 3 | UKG31 | |||||||
Website | birmingham.gov.uk |
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