Alabama, USA -Typing Facts

Type: The first state, alphabetically, is Alabama.

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Type: The capital of Alabama is Montgomery.

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Type: Rosa Parks, Jesse Owens, and Helen Keller are all from Alabama.

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Type: Alabama is the "yellowhammer state," because its state bird is the yellowhammer bird.

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Type: The population of Alabama is (as of July 2015): 4,858,979.

Another nickname for Alabama is "The Heart of Dixie."

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Type: Alabama is bordered by Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, and the Gulf of Mexico.

Type: In 1819, Alabama became the twenty-second state in the USA.

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Type: The state tree is the long-leaf pine, and the official flower is the camellia.

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Type: Farmers in Alabama produce poultry and eggs, cattle, nursery stock, peanuts, cotton, vegetables, milk, and soybeans.

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