
About 720,000 pamphlets praising Brummies for their recycling were sent around the city at a cost of £15,000.
But instead of showing landmarks such as the Rotunda and the new Selfridges building, it showed downtown Birmingham, Alabama, instead.
Jon Cooper, 37, who spotted the error, said the council had thanked him for pointing out the mistake.
Mr Cooper, of Kings Norton, Birmingham, said he had been left puzzled by the leaflet which was pushed through his letterbox.
A TALE OF TWO BRUMS
Birmingham, UK, has population of 1,006,500 while its US namesake has 242,820 residents
Birmingham, UK, one of original centres of industrial revolution and known as City Of A Thousand Trades
Birmingham, AL founded in 1871 and named after English city
Also became major industrial centre
US city saw riots and protests during civil rights movement of 1960s
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