southeast Michigan
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Southeast Michigan, also called southeastern Michigan, is a region in the Lower 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 in Metro Detroit.
Geography
It is bordered in the northeast by Lake St. Clair, to the south-east Lake Erie, and the Detroit River which connects these two lakes.
=Principal cities=
- Detroit, the state's largest city (and the nation's eighteenth-largest) and the county seat of Wayne County.
- Mount Clemens, the county seat of Macomb County.
- Pontiac, the county seat of Oakland County.
== Other important cities within the core counties of Oakland, Macomb, and Wayne ==
- Birmingham
- Dearborn
- Livonia
- Novi
- Romulus, home to Detroit Metro Airport
- Royal Oak
- Southfield
- Sterling Heights, the fourth-largest city (by population) in Michigan.
- Troy
- Warren, third-largest city (by population) in Michigan, location of General Motors Technical Center, the United States Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM), the Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC), the National Automotive Center (NAC).
- West Bloomfield Township
=Outlying cities=
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.
- Adrian, county seat of Lenawee County and home of Adrian College, Siena Heights University.
- Hillsdale, county seat of Hillsdale County located between the southeast and southwest corners of the state.
- Howell, county seat of Livingston County located between Metro Detroit and the Greater Lansing areas.
- Jackson, county seat of Jackson County also considered to be a part of Greater Lansing.
- Monroe, county seat of Monroe County.
- Port Huron, county seat of St. Clair County, also considered to be part of the Thumb.
- Saline, a community in Washtenaw County.
Metropolitan area
{{See also|Metro Detroit}}
With 4,488,335 people in 2010, Metro Detroit was the tenth-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 of the Thumb and Flint/Tri-Cities, are grouped together by the U.S. Census Bureau with Detroit-Warren-Livonia MSA in a wider nine-county region designated the Detroit–Ann Arbor–Flint Combined Statistical Area (CSA) with a population of 5,428,000.
=Combined Statistical Area=
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- Genesee County
- Lapeer County
- Lenawee County (removed from the CSA in 2001 but relisted in 2013)
- Livingston County*
- Macomb County*
- Monroe County*
- Oakland County*
- Saint Clair County*
- Washtenaw County*
- Wayne County*
{{asterisk}}Denotes member counties of the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG)
