Alabama is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida to the south, and Mississippi to the west.

In 2002, the 11th US Circuit Court ordered the removal of the Ten Commandments statue. Chief Justice Roy Moore refused to follow the court order, leading to protests. The monument was eventually removed in August 2003.

Alabama’s economy in the 21st century is based on automotive, finance, tourism, manufacturing, aerospace, mineral extraction, healthcare, education, retail, and technology.

The name of the Alabama River and state is derived from the Alabama people, a Muskogean-speaking tribe whose members lived just below the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers on the upper reaches of the river.

Of the 383 mollusk species, 113 have never been collected outside of Alabama.

Indigenous peoples of varying cultures lived in Alabama for thousands of years before European colonization. These included tribes involved in trade with northeastern tribes by the Ohio River during the Burial Mound Period (1000 BCE – 700 CE) and ...Read more

The capital of Alabama is Montgomery.

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

Tuscaloosa served as Alabama’s capital from 1826 to 1846.