
Country: United Kingdom Birmingham is widely known as Britain’s second city and had 1.2 million people within its city boundaries in 2025. At the heart of England’s West Midlands, it forms part of a much larger urban area with Wolverhampton, Walsall, West Bromwich, Dudley and Solihull, while Sutton Coldfield reaches across its northern and northeastern edges. Its urban area has 2.7 million residents, and the wider metropolitan area has 4.3 million.
