Detroit’s Motto is: “We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes”. As of 2007, the Detroit metropolitan area is the number one exporting region among 310 defined metropolitan areas in the United States.
The Detroit Metropolitan Airport is among the most important hubs in the United States. Detroit and its neighboring Canadian city Windsor are connected through a highway tunnel, railway tunnel, and the Ambassador Bridge, which is the second busiest international crossing in North America, after San Diego–Tijuana.
Detroit has many nicknames including: The Motor City, Motown, Renaissance City, City of the Straits, The D, D-Town, Hockeytown, The Automotive Capital of the World, Rock City, The 313, The Arsenal of Democracy, The Town That Put The World on Wheels, Tigertown, Détroit and Paris of the West.