Welcome to Heart of Dixie, the fanlisting for the state of Alabama.
Alabama was admitted to the union in 1819 as the 22nd state. It forms a roughly rectangular shape on the US map, elongated in a north-south direction. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, and Mississippi to the west. The Florida panhandle blocks Alabama’s access to the Gulf of Mexico except in Alabama’s southwestern corner, where Mobile Bay is located. The state capital is Montgomery.