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Detroit is known as the world's traditional automotive center—"Detroit" is a metonym for the United States automobile industry—and an important source of popular music, legacies celebrated by the city's two familiar nicknames, Motor City and Motown. Other nicknames emerged in the twentieth century, including Rock City, The D, D-Town, Hockeytown, and The 3-1-3, the area code. In two thousand six, Detroit ranked as the United States' eleventh most populous city, with eight hundred seventy-one thousand, one hundred twenty-one residents. At its peak, the city was the fourth largest city in the country, but has steadily declined in population since the nineteen sixties. The name Detroit sometimes refers to the metro Detroit area, a sprawling region with a population of four million, four hundred sixty-eight thousand, nine hundred sixty-six for the Metropolitan Statistical Area and a population of five million, four hundred ten thousand, fourteen for the nine county Combined Statistical Area as of the two thousand six Census Bureau estimates. The Windsor-Detroit area, a critical commercial link straddling the Canada-U.S. border, has a total population of about six million. Detroit's urbanized area population sat at about four million as of the year two thousand, ranking it ninth largest in the United States. The city's name comes from the Detroit River, in French le détroit du Lac Erie, meaning "the strait of Lake Erie," linking Lake Huron and Lake Erie, in the historical context the strait included Lake St. Clair and the St. Clair River. Traveling up the Detroit River on the ship Le Griffon , owned by La Salle, Father Louis Hennepin noted the north bank of the river as an ideal location for a settlement. There, in seventeen one, the French officer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded a settlement called Fort Détroit, naming it after the comte de Pontchartrain, Minister of Marine under Louis XIV. Francois Marie Picoté, sieur de Belestre, Montreal seventeen nineteen to seventeen ninety-three, was the last French military commander at Fort Detroit, surrendering the fort on November twenty-nine, seventeen sixty to the British.
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