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Not to be confused with [[Sweet Home Alabama|the one in Alabama]] (it's really more like [[Motor City|Detroit]]), Birmingham is the second most populous city in the United Kingdom, with a population in the metropolitan borough itself of about one million and a further million and a bit in the surrounding area. It's jokingly referred to as one of the ugliest cities in the world - and that's by it's own inhabitants.
 
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The local population, nicknamed "Brummies", [[British Accents|have a distinctive accent]].
 
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== In fiction ==
* In ''[[The Third World War]]'', Birmingham is pretty much destroyed by a Soviet ICBM.
* ''Take Me High''