Nickname: Yellowhammer state, Camellia state, the Heart of Dixie

Area: 50,744 sp. mi (131,427 sq. km) - ranked 30th

Population: 4,530,182 inhabitants - ranked 23rd

Capital: Montgomery

Main cities: Birmingham, Montgomery, Mobile, Huntsville

Economy: According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the 2003 total gross state product was $132 billion. The per capita income for the state was $26,505 in 2003. Alabama's agricultural outputs include poultry and eggs, cattle, plant nursery items, milk, soybeans, and peaches. Even though neighboring Georgia is called the Peach State, Alabama produces twice as many peaches annually. Its industrial outputs include iron and steel products, mining (mostly coal), and plastic products, cars and trucks, and apparel. Also, Alabama produces aerospace and electronic products, mostly in Huntville area, home of the NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center and the US Army Missile Command, headquartered at Redstone Arsenal.

Also the city of Mobile is a busy seaport on the Gulf of Mexico, and with inland waterway access to the Midwest via the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway.

Useful links: You will find numerous links regarding all topics about Alabama in the following pages:

www.archives.state.al.us/teacher/netres.html

www.alabama.gov

www.touralabama.org