Montgomery is the capital of the U.S. state of Alabama and is the county seat of Montgomery County. Named after Richard Montgomery, it is located on the Alabama River, in the Gulf Coastal Plain.
The city has a total area of 156.2 square miles (405 km2), of which 155.4 square miles (402 km2) is land and 0.8 square miles (2.1 km2) (0.52%) is water.
It has a population of 201,332. It is the second-largest city in Alabama, after Birmingham, and is the 115th largest in the United States. Montgomery has a humid subtropical climate with short, mild winters, warm springs and autumns, and long, hot, humid summers.
