Mobile (pronounced /moʊˈbiːl/) MOW-beel) is the third most populous city in the Southern U.S. state of Alabama and is the county seat of Mobile County.[4] It is located on the Mobile River and the central Gulf Coast of the United States. The population within the city limits was 198,915 during the 2000 census.[2] Mobile is the principal municipality of the Mobile Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), a region of 399,843 residents which is composed solely of Mobile County and is the second largest MSA in the state.[3] Mobile is included in the Mobile-Daphne-Fairhope Combined Statistical Area with a total population of 540,258, the second largest combined statistical area in the state.[5]
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