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Birmingham

To London's northwest presiding over Midlands coal and iron ore is Birmingham with a metropolitan population of 3.9 million.1 It is the center of Britain's car industry. The tallest building is the 39 story "10 Holloway Circus, a mixed-used building, though a planned vertical theme park will top it when and if it is completed and the wired-masts, the Sutton Coldfield Transmitting Station towers are yet taller. A sports venue, the National Indoor Arena, sits atop Robert Stephenson's old railway tunnel. The cylindrical Rotunda is topped with a sign with over 50 thousand light bulbs. The curvy Selfridges is covered with spun aluminum discs.

YearPopulation (thousands)2Political entity
1900 CE1,248United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
2001 CE3,178United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

External references

Selfridges Building in Birmingham

Historical maps

map showing part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 1900 CE

map showing the British Isles, 2000 CE

Footnotes

1. world-gazetteer.com, 2010 calculations, accessed 6/15/2011.
2. Estimate for 1900 in Tables of the World's Largest Cities, in Tertius Chandler, Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth, 2nd ed. (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1987). In 1900 and 2000 it was the third largest city in the British Isles.