Montgomery Regional Airport (IATA code: MGM)Īlabama | Alaska | Arizona | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Delaware | Florida | Georgia | Hawaii | Idaho | Illinois | Indiana | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Louisiana | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota | Mississippi | Missouri | Montana | Nebraska | Nevada | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New Mexico | New York | North Carolina | North Dakota | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Pennsylvania | Rhode Island | South Carolina | South Dakota | Tennessee | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | West Virginia | Wisconsin | Wyomingġ. Huntsville International Airport (IATA code: HSV) Montgomery (226,000), Birmingham (209,000), Huntsville (199,000), Mobile (189,000), Tuscaloosa (101,100)Īlexander City, Andalusia, Anniston, Athens, Atmore, Auburn, Bay Minette, Bessemer, Brewton, Butler, Camden, Centreville, Chickasaw, Clanton, Cullman, Daphne, Decatur, Demopolis, Dothan, Elba, Enterprise, Eufaula, Evergreen, Fairfield, Fayette, Florence, Fort Payne, Gadsden, Greenville, Gulf Shores, Guntersville, Haleyville, Hamilton, Hartselle, Homewood, Hoover, Jackson, Jasper, Lanett, Luverne, Madison, Marion, Opelika, Opp, Ozark, Phenix City, Prattville, Prichard, Roanoke, Russellville, Scottsboro, Selma, Sylacauga, Talladega, Thomasville, Troy, Tuscaloosa (fifth most populous city in Alabama with 90,000 people), Tuskegee, and Union Springs.īirmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport ( IATA code: BHM) A corner bastion sentry box of Fort Conde, in background the two hotel towers, The Battlehouse in the the RSA–Trustmark Building and the Renaissance Riverview Plaza. ![]() The highest point in Alabama is Mount Cheaha at 735.5 m (2,413 ft), located in Cheaha State Park. ![]() In the northeastern corner of the state is the Sand Mountain, a sandstone plateau, part of the southern tip of the Appalachian mountain chain. Lake Martin is a reservoir along the Tallapoosa River, Pickwick Lake is another reservoir along the Tennessee River, and Lewis Smith Lake, a barrier lake on the Sipsey Fork of the Black Warrior River. George Lake (aka Lake Eufaula) is a reservoir formed on the Chattahoochee River along the state line between Alabama and Georgia. Wheeler Lake, Alabama's second-largest lake, is a human-made lake along the Tennessee River. Major lakes are Lake Guntersville, a reservoir along the Tennessee River it is Alabama's largest lake. It is one of the former three forts that guard the entrance to Mobile Bay. The massive brick fort at the eastern tip of the island was built in the 1820s. It is a mostly flat region, but here and there, it offers some change in the landscape, rounded and eroded hills, cuestas, and Flatwoods and the are the floodplains of the Alabama and Black Warrior rivers. The Coastal Plain province of Alabama is the largest geographic region (about 60%) in the state. ![]() ![]() Further southeast stretches out the belt of the Appalachian Ridge and Valley, a region with ridges along valleys in between, like the Red Mountain ridge that separates the Jones Valley from the Shades Valley south of Birmingham (AL).īetween the Ridge and Valley area and the Atlantic Seaboard fall line dominates the Piedmont Upland Alabama's landscape, a triangular shaped area with rolling hills in the central eastern part of the state. To the southeast of the Highland Rim rises the dissected tableland of the Cumberland Plateau (aka Allegheny Plateau), the southern part of the Appalachian Plateau. The Highland Rim section in the northwest and north-central Alabama is the southern portion of the Appalachian Highlands. Nearly 70% of Alabama's landscape is covered by forest.Īlabama's landscape offers five major physiographic regions all areas are sections of the far greater geographic regions of the Eastern and Southeastern United States: Compared with other US states by area, Alabama is six times larger than New Jersey, but it would fit into Texas about five times. The state occupies an area of 135,767 km² (52,420 sq mi), making it somewhat larger than Greece (131,957 km²).
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