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Metro Detroit is the principal urban area in with a population of over 5 million.
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is a major metropolis in the US state of that has had a profound impact on the world. From the advent of the automotive assembly line to the Motown sound, modern techno and rock music, continues to shape both American and global culture.

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is a city in in the state of . This article also covers the adjacent community of Heights.

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is a city in in the U.S. state of . An inner-ring suburb of Detroit, borders to the north, roughly 13 miles north of .

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is the most populous county in the U.S. state of . As of 2020, the United States census placed its population at 1,793,561, making it the 19th-most populous county in the United States.

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is a county in the U.S. state of . It is a principal county of the Detroit metropolitan area, containing the bulk of Detroit's northern suburbs.

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is a county on the eastern shore of the U.S. state of . It is part of the Detroit metropolitan area, bordering to the north and containing many of its northern suburbs.

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is in the area of the and mainly serves .

Metro Detroit

  • Type: metropolitan area with 4,390,000 residents
  • Description: metropolitan area in Michigan, USA
  • Also known as: “Detroit area”, “Detroit metro area”, “Detroit metropolitan area”, “Detroit Tri-County Area”, “Detroit Urban Area”, “Detroit-Ann Arbor-Flint Combined Statistical Area”, “Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI Metro Area”, “Detroit-Warren-Livonia Metropolitan Statistical Area”, “Detroit–Warren–Dearborn, MIMetropolitan Statistical Area”, and “Greater Detroit”
  • Category: metropolitan statistical area
  • Location: , , , ,
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Latitude of center
42.358° or 42° 21′ 29″ north
Longitude of center
-83.215° or 83° 12′ 54″ west
Population
4,390,000
Wiki­data ID
Q1925718
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Metro Detroit” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ديترويت الكبرى”
  • Asturian: “Metro Detroit”
  • Catalan: “Àrea metropolitana de Detroit”
  • Catalan: “Metro Detroit”
  • Chinese: “大底特律都市区”
  • Chinese: “大底特律都市區”
  • Chinese: “底特律大都会”
  • Chinese: “底特律大都會區”
  • Chinese: “底特律都會區”
  • Chinese: “底特律都會帶”
  • Dutch: “Metro Detroit”
  • Esperanto: “Detrojta urba areo”
  • Esperanto: “Granda Detrojto”
  • French: “Metro Detroit”
  • French: “Metro Détroit”
  • German: “Metro Detroit”
  • German: “Metropolregion Detroit”
  • Hebrew: “מטרופולין דטרויט”
  • Indonesian: “Metro Detroit”
  • Italian: “area metropolitana di Detroit”
  • Italian: “Area metropolitana di Detroit”
  • Italian: “Metro Detroit”
  • Japanese: “デトロイト大都市圏”
  • Japanese: “デトロイト都市圏”
  • Japanese: “大デトロイト市”
  • Korean: “메트로 디트로이트”
  • Macedonian: “Метро Детроит”
  • Persian: “کلان‌شهر دیترویت”
  • Romanian: “Detroit zona metropolitana”
  • Romanian: “Metro Detroit”
  • Russian: “Детройт (метрополия)”
  • Russian: “метрополия Детройта”
  • Slovenian: “Metro Detroit”
  • Slovenian: “metropolitanski Detroit”
  • Slovenian: “metropolitansko območje Detroita”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مترو دترویت”
  • Spanish: “Area metropolitana de Detroit-Warren-Livonia”
  • Spanish: “Área metropolitana de Detroit-Warren-Livonia”
  • Spanish: “Area metropolitana de Detroit”
  • Spanish: “Área metropolitana de Detroit”
  • Spanish: “Metro Detroit”
  • Swedish: “Metro Detroit”
  • Ukrainian: “Метро Детройт”
  • Urdu: “میٹرو ڈیٹرائٹ”
  • Vietnamese: “Metro Detroit”

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