Left to right from top: skyline, Bienville Square, Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, Dauphin Street, Port of Mobile, and the USS Alabama
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Nickname(s):
"The Port City", "Azalea City", "The City of Six Flags"
Mobile (English pronunciation: /moʊˈbiːl/) is the fourth most populous city in the U.S. state of Alabama and is the county seat of Mobile County. The population within the city limits was 187,041 as of the 2020 census.[8] It is at the head of Mobile Bay. Mobile is the principal municipality of the Mobile 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-FairhopeCombined Statistical Area with a total population of 661,964, the second largest CSA fully in the state.[7]