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The name Birmingham comes from the Old English Beormingahām, meaning the home or settlement of the Beormingas – a tribe or clan whose name literally means 'Beorma's people' and which may have formed an early unit of Anglo-Saxon administration. As of 2022, Birmingham is the third most visited city in the UK by people from foreign nations. The city also successfully hosted the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Birmingham's major cultural institutions – the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Birmingham Royal Ballet, the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, the Library of Birmingham and the Barber Institute of Fine Arts – enjoy international reputations, and the city has vibrant and influential grassroots art, music, literary and culinary scenes. Its five universities, including the University of Birmingham, make it the largest centre of higher education in the country outside London. Its metropolitan economy is the second-largest in the United Kingdom with a GDP of $121.1bn (2014). The city is a major international commercial centre and an important transport, retail, events and conference hub.

The damage done to the city's infrastructure, in addition to a deliberate policy of demolition and new building by planners, led to extensive urban regeneration in subsequent decades.īirmingham's economy is now dominated by the service sector. From the summer of 1940 to the spring of 1943, Birmingham was bombed heavily by the German Luftwaffe in what is known as the Birmingham Blitz. The resulting high level of social mobility also fostered a culture of political radicalism which, under leaders from Thomas Attwood to Joseph Chamberlain, was to give it a political influence unparalleled in Britain outside London and a pivotal role in the development of British democracy. The Watt steam engine was invented in Birmingham. 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 this provided an economic base for prosperity that was to last into the final quarter of the 20th century. By 1791, it was being hailed as 'the first manufacturing town in the world'.

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Historically a market town in Warwickshire in the medieval period, Birmingham grew during the 18th century during the Midlands Enlightenment and during the 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. Distinctively, Birmingham only has small rivers flowing through it, mainly the River Tame and its tributaries River Rea and River Cole – one of the closest main rivers is the Severn, approximately 20 miles (32 km) west of the city centre. Located in the West Midlands region of England, approximately 100 miles (160 km) from London, Birmingham is considered to be the social, cultural, financial and commercial centre of the Midlands. Birmingham is known as the second city of the United Kingdom. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom, with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West Midlands metropolitan county and approximately 4.3 million in the wider metropolitan area.

Birmingham ( / ˈ b ɜːr m ɪ ŋ ə m/ ( listen) BUR-ming-əm) is a city and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands in England.