Birmingham (gbr)

Birmingham

Birmingham ranks 95th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Kyoto, Bologna, and Cologne. Memorable people born in Birmingham include Neville Chamberlain, Francis Galton, and Austen Chamberlain. Memorable people who died in Birmingham include Joseph Chamberlain, Mike Hailwood, and John Henry Poynting. Birmingham has been the birth place of many soccer players, and actors and the death place of many soccer players, and businesspeople. Birmingham is located in United Kingdom.

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in Britain – commonly referred to as the second city of the United Kingdom – with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper. Birmingham borders the Black Country to its west and, together with the city of Wolverhampton and towns including Dudley and Solihull, forms the West Midlands conurbation. The royal town of Sutton Coldfield is incorporated within the city limits to the northeast. The wider metropolitan area has a population of 4.3 million, making it the largest outside London. Read more on Wikipedia