ALAlabama
Yellowhammer State · Capital: Montgomery · South (Deep South)
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Capital
Montgomery
Largest city
Huntsville
Population
1–5 million
Area rank
#30 of 50
Admitted
1819
Time zone
Central Time
Region
South
Letters
7
Bordering states: Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi.
4 fun facts about Alabama
- The Saturn V rocket that took Apollo 11 to the Moon was designed in Huntsville, nicknamed "Rocket City".
- The civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 directly led to the Voting Rights Act later that year.
- It's the only US state with both Mardi Gras tradition (Mobile started it before New Orleans) and peanut farms producing 50%+ of US output.
- Helen Keller, born in Tuscumbia, learned to speak after she was deaf-blind — her first signed word was "water".
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