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It is often called 'the heart of England', and is the main city of the West Midlands conurbation that extends northwest to Wolverhampton.
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It was little more than a market town before it was overwhelmed by a wave of industrialization in the 19th century. With coalfields to the east and west, and a maze of canals linking mines to factories and factories to seaports, the area became known as the Black Country. One of the earliest railways linked Birmingham with London, 160 km (100 miles) away to the southeast.
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The engineer James Watt produced the world's first rotative steam engines - the power source of the Industrial Revolution - in Birmingham in the 1780s. Today the city has an almost endless list of industries, including jewellery, guns, brassware, buttons, wire, toys and motor vehicles. Chocolate manufacture created a whole suburb, Bourneville.
Its industrial importance led to the building of grandiose public offices in the 19th century, such as the town hall, museum and art gallery. The Anglican cathedral is 18th century and its Roman Catholic counterpart dates from 1841. Some of Britain's earliest urban planning and legislation originated in Birmingham.
Despite the decline of many of its older industries, it remains one of Britain's leading commercial and industrial centres. It is home for the National Exhibition Centre, next to its airport, and it has two universities and a polytechnic.
