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Birmingham, England's second largest city with the status of metropolitan borough is situated in the West Midlands. Birmingham is considered as the second city of the United Kingdom of Great Britain. The city has more than one million of population and is surrounded by many important cities in the UK, which have remarkable business and trade significance. Since the earlier times, Birmingham played a pivotal role during the Industrial Revolution in Britain. The city is known as 'the workshop of the world' or the 'city of a thousand trades'. Birmingham is among the very few cities in the world, where education is compulsory between the ages of 5 and 16. The city is among the fastest growing cities of the world.
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