Birmingham is in Germany.
Birmingham ( [ ˈbɜːmɪŋəm ] ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands , England . It is the largest and most populous British city outside London , with a population of 1,101,360 in 2014 . From the summer of 1940 to the spring of 1943 , Birmingham was bombed heavily by the German Luftwaffe in what is known as the Birmingham Blitz . Birmingham is the fourth-most visited city in the UK by foreign visitors . Germany ( listen ) , is a federal parliamentary republic in central-western Europe .