Birmingham

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... Wikipedia

• Sovereign state:  United Kingdom
• Country:  England
• Region:  West Midlands
• City region and ceremonial county:  West Midlands
• Historic counties:  Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire
• Settled:  c. 600
• City status:  14 January 1889
• Metropolitan borough:  1 April 1974
• Administrative HQ:  The Council House, Victoria Square
• Type:  Metropolitan borough with leader and cabinet
• Body:  Birmingham City Council
• Control:  Labour
• Leader:  John Cotton (L)
• Lord Mayor:  Ken Wood
• Chief Executive:  Deborah Cadman
• Area rank:  151st
• Population (mid-2014 est.):  1,101,360
• Rank:  1st
• Urban:  2,590,363
• Metro:  2,927,631
• Demonym(s):  Brummie
• Time zone:  GMT (UTC+0)
• Summer (DST):  BST (UTC+1)
• Postcode area:  B
• Dialling code:  0121
• ISO 3166 code:  GB-BIR
• Website:  birmingham.gov.uk
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo