Mobile, Alabama

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	Coordinates: 30°41′40″N 88°02′35″W / 30.69444°N 88.04306°WCoordinates: 30°41′40″N 88°02′35″W / 30.69444°N 88.04306°W
Country	United States
State	Alabama
County	Mobile
Founded	1702
Incorporated (town)	January 20, 1814
Incorporated (city)	December 17, 1819
Government
• Type	Mayor–council
Area
• City	180.07 sq mi (466.39 km2)
• Land	139.48 sq mi (361.26 km2)
• Water	40.59 sq mi (105.14 km2)
• Urban	222.8 sq mi (577 km2)
• Metro	1,644 sq mi (4,260 km2)
Elevation	33 ft (10 m)
Population (2020)
• City	187,041
• Rank	US: 138th; AL: 4th
• Density	1,340.97/sq mi (517.75/km2)
• Urban	321,907 (US: 126th)
• Urban density	1,458.3/sq mi (563.0/km2)
• Metro	430,197 (US: 126th)
• CSA	661,964 (US: 76th)
Time zone	UTC−6 (CST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−5 (CDT)
ZIP Codes	Zip codes
FIPS code	01-50000
GNIS feature ID	2404278
Website	www.cityofmobile.org

Mobile (how to say: /moʊˈbiːl/) is a city and the county seat of Mobile County in the U.S. state of Alabama. The population within the city limits was 187,041 as of the 2020 census,^[8] but was increased to 204,689 after it annexed areas west of the city, which makes it the second-most populous city in Alabama.^[10]

It is at the head of Mobile Bay. Mobile is the principal municipality of the Mobile–Pensacola Metropolitan Statistical Area, a region of 430,197 residents which is composed of Mobile and Washington counties and is the third largest MSA in the state.^[4] Mobile Mobile is included in the Mobile–Daphne–Fairhope Combined Statistical Area with a total population of 661,964, the second largest CSA fully in the state.^[7]

Mobile, Alabama Media

A reconstructed bastion of the Fort Condé
A HABS photo of the Southern Hotel on Water Street in 1934. It was completed in 1837 and demolished soon after this photograph was taken.
Convent and Academy of the Visitation, completed in 1855
Steamboats bound for inland Alabama and Mississippi being loaded at Mobile's dockyards
Mobile Cotton Exchange and Chamber of Commerce building, completed in 1886
The Van Antwerp Building, completed in 1907
Warehouse district at the port, 1932
The SS Hat Creek, a T2 tanker completed by Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company in 1943. The company built 102 of these oil tankers during WWII.
A Liberty ship of the type built at Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company during World War II. Twenty were completed in Mobile.
Downtown in 2008, as seen from Cooper Riverside Park. Buildings include (L to R): The Renaissance Mobile Riverview Plaza Hotel, RSA–BankTrust Building, Arthur C. Outlaw Convention Center, and the RSA Battle House Tower.