Phenix City is a city and the county seat

County seat

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 in Russell County

Russell County, Alabama

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 in the U.S. state

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 of Alabama

Alabama

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. Portions of Lee County

Lee County, Alabama

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 are addressed as Phenix City, 36870 ZIP code, for the sole purpose that Smiths Station

Smiths Station, Alabama

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 does not have full incorporation to annex the area. As of 2006, the population

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 of the city was 30,067, according to Census Bureau estimates.

Phenix City is sometimes called a "Hub City

Hub City

Hub is the capital city of the Hub Tehsil, located in the Lasbela District of the Balochistan Hub is Industrial city of Balochistan, its original name is Hub Chowki once upon a time there is an Police chowki called Nakahi in after development of Factory and many company this city change there...

", as it lies immediately west of Columbus, Georgia

Columbus, Georgia

Columbus is a city in and the county seat of Muscogee County, Georgia, United States, with which it is consolidated. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 189,885. It is the principal city of the Columbus, Georgia metropolitan area, which, in 2009, had an estimated population of 292,795...

, which is a much larger city.