Downtown Birmingham, as seen from Red Mountain with the iconic statue of Vulcan in the foreground. Located in Jefferson County, Birmingham is the most populous city in Alabama and is a center of banking, finance, higher education, and medicine.
Birmingham
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Photograph by M. Lewis Kennedy; courtesy of Vulcan Park and Museum
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