Detroit is Michigan's most populous city and the largest city along the Canadian-United States border, home to a metropolitan region population of more than 4.3 million residents, making it the Midwest's second-largest metropolis after Chicago.

The Detroit River port city has long been known as a prominent Midwestern center for arts and innovation, hailed internationally for its Big Three automobile manufacturing companies Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors and its R&B music scene in the mid-2oth century, anchored around iconic recording studio Motown Records.

Top attractions include the 982-acre Belle Isle Park, the sprawling Henry Ford Museum, and the unique Comerica Park, the home of the Detroit Tigers baseball team, which features a plethora of tiger statues and a Ferris wheel with baseball-shaped capsules. For travelers with a Canadian passport, the city serves as a convenient gateway to Ontario cities such as Toronto and Hamilton.

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