Southeast Michigan | |
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 Metro Detroit lies within southeast Michigan. | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  Michigan |
Southeast Michigan, also calledsoutheastern Michigan, is a region in theLower Peninsula of Michigan that is home to a majority of the state's businesses and industries as well as slightly over half of the state's population, most of whom are concentrated inMetro Detroit.
It is bordered in the northeast byLake St. Clair, to the south-eastLake Erie, and theDetroit River which connects these two lakes.
Some cities are considered within southeast Michigan, while also being a part of another region or metropolitan area. The following cities tend to identify themselves separately from southeast Michigan and are isolated from the core counties of Oakland, Macomb, and Wayne.
With 4,488,335 people in 2010,Metro Detroit was thetenth-largest metropolitan area in the United States, while Ann Arbor's metropolitan area ranked 141st with 341,847. Metropolitan areas of southeast Michigan, and parts ofthe Thumb andFlint/Tri-Cities, are grouped together by the U.S. Census Bureau with Detroit-Warren-Livonia MSA in a wider nine-county region designated theDetroit–Ann Arbor–FlintCombined Statistical Area (CSA) with a population of 5,428,000.
*Denotes member counties of the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG)
The main economic activity is manufacturing cars. Major manufacturing cities areWarren,Sterling Heights,Dearborn (Henry Ford's childhood home) and Detroit, also called "Motor City" or "Motown". Other economic activities include banking and other service industries. Most people in Livingston, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, Washtenaw, and Wayne Counties live in urban areas. In the recent years,urban sprawl has affected the areas ofCanton,Commerce,Chesterfield, andMacomb townships. The metropolitan area is also home to some of the highest ranked hospitals and medical centers, Such as the Detroit Medical Center(DMC), Henry Ford Hospital, Beaumont Hospital, and theUniversity of Michigan hospital in Ann Arbor.
SEMCOG Commuter Rail is a proposed regional rail link between Ann Arbor and Detroit.
TheDetroit Metro Airport is the busiest in the area with the opening of the McNamara terminal and the now completed North Terminal. The airport is located inRomulus.
Manufacturing and service industries have replaced agriculture for the most part. In rural areas ofSaint Clair County,Monroe, andLivingston Counties still grow crops such ascorn,sugar beets,soy beans, other types of beans, and fruits.Romeo and northern Macomb County is well known for its apple and peach orchards.
Most major Detroit radio stations, such asWJR andWWJ, can be heard in most or all of southeastern Michigan. Port Huron, Howell, Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti, Adrian, and Monroe are also served by their own locally-originating stations.National Public Radio is broadcast locally from Ann Arbor onMichigan Radio WUOM 91.7 FM and from Detroit onWDET-FM 101.9 FM.
Major television stations include:WJBK Fox 2 Detroit (Fox),WXYZ Channel 7 (ABC),WDIV Local 4 (NBC),WWJ-TV CBS 62 (CBS) andWKBD CW 50 (CW).
Newspaper
Daily editions of theDetroit Free Press andThe Detroit News are available throughout the area.
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