Detroit is a large city in the North of the United States in the state of Michigan, located on the border with Canada. Founded in 1701, it is one of the oldest cities in the Midwest, having worldwide fame as the automotive capital of the world. Popular nicknames of Detroit: Motor City and Motown.
Detroit's population is estimated at 673,000 in 2017. It is the largest city in Michigan and the second largest city in the Midwest after Chicago. The population of the metropolitan area, known as Metro Detroit, the center of which is Detroit, exceeds 4.3 million people. This is the 11th largest urban agglomeration in the United States. It is worth noting that the population of the city continues to decline steadily. In March 2011, the mayor of Detroit announced the data that the city is home to about 750 thousand people, by 2017 this number has decreased.
In 1701, French officer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac with a small team established a settlement on the banks of the river connecting Lake Erie and Lake Saint Clair. This river, called Detroit, was a section of the waterway(straight) between two Great Lakes: Lake Huron and Lake Erie. As a matter of fact, the word Detroit and means in French-strait. And the settlement, founded by the French, was called Fort Detroit. The city's prime location in the rapidly developing Great Lakes region has made Detroit an important transportation hub. Since the 1830s, the city has experienced a steady growth of the industry, accompanied by population growth.
In 1899, Henry Ford built a car factory near Detroit, and in 1903 founded the Ford Motor Company. The first to introduce a conveyor Assembly, Ford has established a mass Assembly of the legendary car Model T. This American-made car sold very well, over 15 million units sold, and Ford eventually became the largest car company in the US. Ford's innovations were quickly introduced and its competitors. Car companies such as General Motors, Chrysler and American Motors and Ford have opened their headquarters in Detroit. Thus, very quickly Detroit became the automotive capital of the world.
The growing economy and jobs have attracted tens of thousands of new residents to the city. Among them were both African Americans from the South of the United States and immigrants from Europe. By 1930, Detroit had become the 4th largest city in the United States with 1.6 million residents. During the Second world war, the industrial boom continued. In just a few years of war in Detroit has arrived more than 350 thousand people. However, social tension in the city was constantly growing.
Detroit is bordered by the Canadian city of Windsor, which is just south of the other side of the Detroit River. Interesting fact-Detroit is the only major U.S. city located along the US-Canadian border, where to get to Canada, you need to move to the south. The main link with Canada is through the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit-Windsor tunnel.
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