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Alabama
Motto: "Audemus jura nostra defendere" - Latin - "We dare to defend our rights"
Nickname: No official one, but known as "The Heart of Dixie" for many decades.
Capital: Montgomery - Alabama has had 5 capitals in its Territory/State history
Population: 4,500,752 (Estimate by the US Census Bureau 7/01/03); Ranks 23rd in US State Population
Size: 330 miles long and 190 miles wide at its most distant points; covers 52,423 square miles - 30th largest state of the 50 states
Bird: Yellowhammer
Flower: Camellia
In the 1500s the Europeans named one of the state's waterways the Alabama River, after a southern Indian tribe that lived in what is now central Alabama. From the Alabama River, the name of the state was derived.
The Alabama Territory was created in 1918 when the US Congress passed the enabling act, allowing for the division of the Mississippi Territory. Alabama became a state on December 14, 1819. It was the 22nd state to be admitted to the Union.
People who live in Alabama are called "Alabamians."
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