Southeast Michigan
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Southeast Michigan, also called Southeastern Michigan, is a region in the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan that is home to a majority of the state's residents, businesses, and industries. The region is home to Detroit, the state's largest city (and the nation's eleventh largest), and the numerous communities that make up the larger Metro Detroit area. Other important cities in Southeastern Michigan include Ann Arbor, home of the University of Michigan's main campus, Flint, and Monroe. Each of these cities has their own metropolitan statistical area. With 4,488,335 people, Metro Detroit is the tenth largest metropolitan area in the United States. Flint's MSA ranks 106th with a population of 443,883, and Ann Arbor's MSA ranks 141st with 341,847. Metropolitan areas of Flint, Ann Arbor, and Monroe, are grouped together by the U.S. Census Bureau with Detroit-Warren-Livonia MSA in a wider nine county region designated the Detroit–Warren–Flint Combined Statistical Area (CSA) with a population of 5,428,000.
The Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG) defines Southeast Michigan as Livingston, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, St. Clair, Washtenaw, and Wayne counties.
Residents of Southeast Michigan not from Detroit may stress this fact by stating they originate from "Southeast Michigan" rather than "Detroit" or "near Detroit" to distance themselves from the city's negative reputation in popular culture, mostly due to crime.
[edit] Further reading
- Fisher, Dale (2005). Southeast Michigan: Horizons of Growth. Grass Lake, MI: Eyry of the Eagle Publishing. ISBN 1891143255.
- Gavrilovich, Peter and Bill McGraw (2000). The Detroit Almanac. Detroit Free Press. ISBN 0-937247-34-0.
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