Detroit
Submitted by brian s hall on 10 July, 2010 - 23:35
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Detroit (pronounced /dɨˈtrɔɪt/[4]) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the seat of Wayne County. Detroit is a major port city on the Detroit River, in the Midwest region of the United States. Located north of Windsor, Ontario, Detroit is the only major [5] U.S. city that looks south to Canada. It was founded on July 24, 1701, by the Frenchman Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac.
Known as the world's traditional automotive center,[7] "Detroit" is a metonym for the American automobile industry and an important source of popular music legacies celebrated by the city's two familiar nicknames, the Motor City and Motown.[8][9] Other nicknames emerged in the twentieth century, including City of Champions[10] beginning in the 1930s for its successes in individual and team sport,Arsenal of Democracy (during World War II),[11] The D, D-Town, Hockeytown (a trademark owned by the city's NHL club, the Red Wings), Rock City (after the Kiss song "Detroit Rock City"), and The 3-1-3 (its telephone area code).[12][13]
In 2008, Detroit ranked as the United States' eleventh most populous city, with 910,920 residents.[14] At its peak in 1950, the city was the fourth-largest in the USA, but has since seen a major shift in its population to the suburbs.
The name Detroit sometimes refers to the Metro Detroit area, a sprawling region with a population of 4,425,110[15] for the Metropolitan Statistical Area, making it the nation's eleventh-largest, and a population of 5,354,225[2] for the nine-county Combined Statistical Area as of the 2008 Census Bureau estimates. The Detroit-Windsor area, a critical commercial link straddling the Canada-U.S. border, has a total population of about 5,700,000.[16]
