The Great Migration led tens of thousands of African Americans from rural Alabama to seek opportunities in northern and midwestern cities, significantly affecting Alabama’s population growth rate from 1910 to 1920.

Alabama is home to 62 indigenous mammal species.

Alabama is nicknamed the Yellowhammer State, after the state bird. It is also known as the “Heart of Dixie” and the “Cotton State.”

The Moundville Archaeological Site in Hale County, Alabama, was occupied by Native Americans of the Mississippian culture from 1000 to 1450 CE. It is the second-largest complex of the classic Middle Mississippian era, after Cahokia in present-day Illinois.

About three-fifths of Alabama’s land area is part of the Gulf Coastal Plain, a gentle plain that descends towards the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico.

Huntsville served as Alabama’s temporary capital from 1819 to 1820.

Alabama is the 30th largest by area and the 24th-most populous of the 50 U.S. states.

Alabama was admitted as the 22nd state on December 14, 1819.

As early as 1702, the French called the tribe the Alibamon, and French maps identified the river as Rivière des Alibamons.

While part of the same large language family, the Muskogean-speaking tribes in Alabama developed distinct cultures and languages.