Birmingham (/ˈbÉœË rmɪŋəm/ (listen) BUR-ming-É™m) is a city and
metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. It is the
second-largest city, urban area and metropolitan area in England and
the United Kingdom,[b] with roughly 1.1 million inhabitants within the
city area, 2.9 million inhabitants within the urban area and 4.3
million inhabitants within the metropolitan area and lies within the
most populated English district. Birmingham is commonly referred to as
the second city of the United Kingdom.Located in the West Midlands
county and region in England, approximately 100 miles (160 km) from
Central London, Birmingham, as one of the United Kingdom's major
cities, is considered to be the social, cultural, financial, and
commercial centre of both the East and West Midlands. Distinctively,
Birmingham only has small rivers flowing through it, mainly the River
Tame and its tributaries River Rea and River Cole â€" one of the
closest main rivers is the Severn, approximately 20 miles (32 km) west
of the city centre.A market town of Warwickshire in the medieval
period, Birmingham grew in the 18th-century Midlands Enlightenment and
subsequent Industrial Revolution, which saw advances in science,
technology, and economic development, producing a series of
innovations that laid many of the foundations of modern industrial
society. By 1791, it was being hailed as "the first manufacturing town
in the world". Birmingham's distinctive economic profile, with
thousands of small workshops practising a wide variety of specialised
and highly skilled trades, encouraged exceptional levels of creativity
and innovation and provided an economic base for prosperity that was
to last into the final quarter of the 20th century. The Watt steam
engine was invented in Birmingham. Birmingham Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter