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17 hours ago · The province's name was chosen by Queen Victoria, when the Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866), i.e., "the Mainland", became a British colony in 1858. [27] It refers to the Columbia District, the British name for the territory drained by the Columbia River, in southeastern British Columbia, which was the namesake of the pre-Oregon Treaty Columbia Department of the Hudson's Bay Company.
17 hours ago · As of the 2022 census estimates, Birmingham had a population of 197,505, down 2% from the 2020 census, [3] making it Alabama's third-most populous city after Huntsville and Montgomery. [ a ] The broader Birmingham metropolitan area had a 2020 population of 1,115,289, [ 4 ] and is the largest metropolitan area in Alabama as well as the 47th-most populous in the United States.
17 hours ago · By 1940, the Census Bureau reported the city's population as 87.8 percent white and 12.2 percent black. [80] In the second half of the 20th century, Cincinnati, along with other rust belt cities, underwent a vast demographic transformation. By the early 21st century, the city's population was 40% black.
