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Dearborn
The United States of America is a country in North America that extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and shares land borders with Canada and Mexico. The United States is a federal constitutional republic, with its capital in Washington, D.C., District of Columbia.
Dearborn is a city of nearly 98,000 people located in the Metro Detroit metropolitan area and Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The city is the hometown of Henry Ford and the world headquarters of the Ford Motor Company, and the site of a University of Michigan campus as well as Henry Ford Community College. Dearborn is the home of Michigan's leading tourist attraction, The Henry Ford, the nation's largest indoor-outdoor American History museum entertainment complex. Notable buildings in the city skyline include the Hyatt Regency Dearborn located across from Fairlane Town Center mall.
Dearborn's population includes 30,000 Arab-Americans, the second largest Arab population of any community in the United States. The population of the city was 97,775 in the year 2005 with an area of 63.3 square kilometers and its population density was 1,549.7 per square kilometers. Dearborn is home to the Ford River Rouge Plant, built by Henry Ford to make Ford Model T components, and later the birthplace of the Ford Mustang.
The Dearborn area was first settled by Europeans in 1791. The village of Dearborn was established in 1836, named after patriot Henry Dearborn, a general in the American Revolution and Secretary of War under President Thomas Jefferson. Its origins as a city trace back to a January 1929 consolidation vote which established its present-day borders by merging Dearborn and neighboring Fordson which feared being absorbed into Detroit.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 63.3 square kilometers In the city the population was spread out with 27.8 percent under the age of 18, 8.3 percent from 18 to 24, 29.2 percent from 25 to 44, 19.1 percent from 45 to 64, and 15.6 percent who were 65 years of age or older.
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