Detroit metropolitan area, often referred to as Metro Detroit, is a major metropolitan area in the U S State of Michigan, consisting of the city of Detroit and its surrounding area.
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Detroit metropolitan area, often referred to as Metro Detroit, is a major metropolitan area in the U S State of Michigan, consisting of the city of Detroit and its surrounding area.
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Metro Detroit is known for its automotive heritage, arts, entertainment, popular music, and sports.
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Metro Detroit has one of the largest metropolitan economies in America with seventeen Fortune 500 companies.
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Conan Smith, a businessperson quoted in a 2012 article by The Ann Arbor News, stated the most significant reason Washtenaw County, including Ann Arbor, is not often included in definitions of Metro Detroit is that there is a "lack of affinity that Washtenaw County as a whole has with Wayne County and Detroit or Oakland County and Macomb".
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Ann Arbor is nearly 43 miles by car from Downtown Metro Detroit, and developed separately as a university city, with its own character.
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Metro Detroit is one of the leading health care economies in the U S, according to a 2003 study measuring health care industry components, with the region's hospital sector ranked fourth in the nation.
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Gaming revenues have grown steadily, with Metro Detroit ranked as the fifth-largest gambling market in the United States for 2007.
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Metro Detroit has made Michigan's economy a leader in information technology, biotechnology, and advanced manufacturing.
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Metro Detroit is an important source of engineering and high-tech job opportunities.
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Metro Detroit serves as the headquarters for the United States Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command, with Selfridge Air National Guard Base.
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Metro Detroit is a prominent business center, with major commercial districts such as the Detroit Financial District and Renaissance Center, the Southfield Town Center, and the historic New Center district with the Fisher Building and Cadillac Place.
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The metropolitan Detroit area has one of the nation's largest office markets with 147, 082, 003 square feet.
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Chrysler's largest corporate facility is its U S headquarters and technology center in the Detroit suburb of Auburn Hills, while Ford Motor Company is in Dearborn, directly adjacent to Detroit.
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Metro Detroit is a tourist destination that easily accommodates super-sized crowds to events such as the Woodward Dream Cruise, North American International Auto Show, the Windsor-Detroit International Freedom Festival, 2009 NCAA Final Four, and Super Bowl XL.
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Metro Detroit contains a number of shopping malls, including the upscale Somerset Collection in Troy, Great Lakes Crossing Outlets in Auburn Hills, and Twelve Oaks Mall in Novi, all of which are draws for tourists.
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Region's leading attraction is The Henry Ford, located in the Metro Detroit suburb of Dearborn; it is America's largest indoor-outdoor museum complex.
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Metro Detroit is a six-county metropolitan statistical area with a population of 4, 392, 041—making it the 14th-largest MSA in the United States as enumerated by the 2020 United States Census.
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Metro Detroit region is a ten-county Combined Statistical Area with a population of 5, 325, 219—making it the 12th-largest CSA in the United States as enumerated by the 2020 Census.
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Metro Detroit has a sizeable population of Indian Americans, with an estimated 1.
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Indians Americans in Metro Detroit are employed in various engineering and medical fields.
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Metro Detroit area is linked by an advanced network of major roads and freeways which include Interstate highways.
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