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Birmingham

United Kingdom

Watercolour of Birmingham, United Kingdom. The historic industrial heartland and "Canal City" with more miles of canal than Venice. Featuring Gas Street Basin and Library of Birmingham.
AI-generated artistic rendering. Painted from written research on the city's setting, architecture and materials — not from a photograph.
What guided this image
Landmarks
Gas Street Basin; Library of Birmingham; Victoria Square; St. Martin; Jewellery Quarter; lush urban greenery; Industrial Revolution
Viewpoint
Favor the classic viewpoint from Gas Street Basin or the canal approaches looking toward Centenary Square and the city center, showing narrowboats and brick towpaths in the foreground, canal footbridges, converted warehouses, and the Library of Birmingham in the middle-ground, and the Victorian towers and modern spires in the background.
Palette
Green should be the predominant color, especially in the weeping willows along canal basins, parklands, and ivy growing on historic brick walls.
Guarded against
Not London, Manchester, or Liverpool
Population1,157,603Wikidata: 1,123,000
Coordinates52.48°N, 1.90°W
Elevation140 m
Area268 km²
Time zoneEurope/LondonUTC+0
Solar noon12:08clock runs 0.1 h ahead of the sun

Through the Earth

Dig straight through the Earth from Birmingham and you surface in open ocean, nearest to Papatowai, New Zealand — 905 km from the exact antipodal point.

Nearest cities in the atlas

LondonGB162 km
DublinIE307 km
AmsterdamNL460 km
BrusselsBE467 km
ParisFR502 km
KölnDE633 km
LuxembourgLU645 km
HamburgDE803 km

Twinned cities

6 of 10 twinned cities are in this atlas. See the full network →

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