Birmingham is one of the best cities to start playing mahjong in the US: Here’s why
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New data points to an unexpected hub for mahjong in America: the Deep South, including three of Alabama’s biggest cities.
An analysis from Mahjong 4 Friends, one of the country’s largest online mahjong platforms, looked at nearly 1.8 million active U.S. players over the past year across more than 1,400 cities. The findings point to a “Mahjong Belt” stretching from the Carolinas through the Gulf and up into the lower Midwest — and Birmingham, Montgomery and Mobile all landed in the national top 25.
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