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State:	Alabama
Abbreviation:	AL
Capital:	Montgomery
Largest City:	Birmingham
Population:	4447100
Land-Square Miles:	50,750
Land-Square Miles Rank:	28
Highest Point:	Cheaha Mountain, 2,407 ft.
Governor of Alabama:	Robert R. Riley
Political Party:	Republican
Seat Up:	2010
Entered Union:	December 14, 1819
State Number:	22nd
State Motto:	We Dare Defend Our Rights (Audemus Jura Nostra Defendere) (Audemus Jura Nostra Defendere)
State Nickname:	The Yellowhammer State
State Flower:	Camellia
StateFlower2:	Camellia
State Bird:	Yellowhammer
State Song:	Alabama
Sports Team:	None
Origin Of The State Name:	May come from Choctaw word meaning "thicket-clearers" or "vegetation-gatherers"
Major Industries:	Paper, Chemicals, Rubber and Plastics
Historical Sites:	Montgomery, founding site of the Confederate States of America in 1861, and later the site of the Montgomery bus boycotts in the 1950s and 1960s; Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in downtown Montgomery, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., served as minister; the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881
Points Of Interest:	Ivy Green, the birthplace of Helen Keller in Tuscambia; the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville; and the White House of the Confederacy in Montgomery
Bordering States:	Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee