Birmingham in the West Midlands

23 August 2012 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

Birmingham City Council building at Victoria Square © Cristian Bortes

Birmingham City Council building at Victoria Square © Cristian Bortes

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900, and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a population of 2,738,100. Birmingham’s metropolitan area is also the United Kingdom’s second most populous with a population of 3,683,000.   read more…

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