The Birmingham metropolitan area can refer to one of two areas:
- Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area (part of Birmingham-Hoover-Cullman Combined Statistical Area), Alabama, USA
- The metropolitan area around the city of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, with a population estimated at 3,683,000 in 2001
Famous quotes containing the words metropolitan and/or area:
“In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
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—Stephanie Martson (20th century)