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.

The first Constitutional Convention for Alabama was held in Huntsville from July 5 to August 2, 1819.

The Wetumpka crater is a 5-mile (8 km)-wide meteorite impact crater located in Elmore County, just north of Montgomery. It is considered Alabama’s greatest natural disaster, created by a meteorite impact about 80 million years ago.

The French controlled Alabama from 1702 to 1763 as part of La Louisiane. After the French lost to the British in the Seven Years’ War, it became part of British West Florida from 1763 to 1783. Following the American ...Read more

Politically, as part of the Deep South, Alabama is predominantly a conservative state and is known for its Southern culture.

Alabama’s coastal counties, part of the former Spanish West Florida territory, officially became part of the United States in 1819 with the Adams–Onís Treaty.

Pine forests form the largest proportion of forests in Alabama, which once boasted huge expanses of these forests.

The Yazoo lands referred to most of what is now the northern two-thirds of Alabama, claimed by the Province of Georgia from 1767 onwards. Following the Revolutionary War, it remained part of Georgia until added to the Mississippi Territory ...Read more

The agrarian Mississippian culture covered most of Alabama from 1000 to 1600 CE, with one of its major centers at the Moundville Archaeological Site.

The largest city in Alabama by population and area is Huntsville.