Mobile, Alabama | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-04

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Mobile, Alabama


00:02:28 1 Etymology
00:03:08 2 History
00:03:17 2.1 Colonial
00:08:00 2.2 19th century
00:13:19 2.3 20th century
00:21:49 3 Geography and climate
00:21:59 3.1 Geography
00:22:47 3.2 Neighborhoods
00:23:11 3.3 Climate
00:25:27 3.3.1 Christmas Day tornado
00:26:58 4 Culture
00:28:02 4.1 Carnival and Mardi Gras
00:31:01 4.2 Archives and libraries
00:32:45 4.3 Arts and entertainment
00:36:44 5 Tourism
00:36:53 5.1 Museums
00:39:17 5.2 Parks and other attractions
00:41:35 5.3 Historic architecture
00:45:06 6 Demographics
00:47:35 7 Government
00:50:00 8 Education
00:50:08 8.1 Public facilities
00:50:56 8.2 Private facilities
00:52:20 8.3 Tertiary
00:52:29 8.4 Primary and secondary
00:52:54 8.4.1 Undergraduate and postgraduate
00:54:46 8.4.2 Community college
00:55:09 8.4.3 Vocational
00:55:39 9 Healthcare
00:57:48 10 Economy
00:58:49 10.1 Major industry
00:58:57 10.1.1 Port of Mobile
00:59:37 10.1.2 Shipyards
01:00:44 10.1.3 Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley
01:03:01 10.1.4 ThyssenKrupp
01:03:52 10.2 Top employers
01:04:09 10.3 Unemployment rate
01:04:37 11 Transportation
01:04:47 11.1 Air
01:05:25 11.2 Rail
01:06:27 11.3 Roadways
01:08:14 11.4 Water
01:10:36 12 Media
01:10:44 12.1 Print
01:11:24 12.2 Television
01:12:34 12.3 Radio
01:13:33 13 Sports
01:13:42 13.1 Football
01:14:55 13.2 Baseball
01:15:33 13.3 Basketball
01:15:52 13.4 Other sports and facilities
01:16:55 14 Sister cities
01:17:09 15 Tunnels
01:17:28 16 See also



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SUMMARY
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Mobile ( moh-BEEL; French pronunciation: ​[mɔ.bil]) is the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States. The population within the city limits was 195,111 as of the 2010 United States Census, making it the third most populous city in Alabama, the most populous in Mobile County, and the largest municipality on the Gulf Coast between New Orleans, Louisiana, and St. Petersburg, Florida.
Alabama's only saltwater port, Mobile is located on the Mobile River at the head of the Mobile Bay and the north-central Gulf Coast. The Port of Mobile has always played a key role in the economic health of the city, beginning with the settlement as an important trading center between the French colonists and Native Americans, down to its current role as the 12th-largest port in the United States.Mobile is the principal municipality of the Mobile metropolitan area. This region of 412,992 residents is composed solely of Mobile County; it is the third-largest metropolitan statistical area in the state. Mobile is the largest city in the Mobile-Daphne−Fairhope CSA, with a total population of 604,726, the second largest in the state. As of  2011, the population within a 60-mile (100 km) radius of Mobile is 1,262,907.Mobile was established in 1702 by the French as the first capital of colonial La Louisiane (New France). During its first 100 years, Mobile was a colony of France, then Britain, and lastly Spain. Mobile first became a part of the United States of America in 1813, with the annexation by President James Madison of West Florida from Spain. In 1861, Alabama joined the Confederate States of America, which surrendered in 1865.Considered one of the Gulf Coast's cultural centers, Mobile has several art museums, a symphony orchestra, professional opera, professional ballet company, and a large concentration of historic architecture. Mobile is known for having the oldest organized Carnival or Mardi Gras celebrations in the United States. Its French Catholic colonial settlers celebrated this festival from the first decade of the 18th century. Beginning in 1830, Mobile was host to the first formally organized Carnival mystic society to celebrate with a parade in the United States. (In New Orleans such a group is called a krewe.)