Editing Michigan (section)

=== Administrative divisions ===
{{Main|Administrative divisions of Michigan}}

{{See also|List of counties in Michigan|List of municipalities in Michigan|List of Michigan metropolitan areas}}
[[File:Michigan Municipalities.png|thumb|[[List of municipalities in Michigan|Michigan Municipalities]]]]
State government is decentralized among three tiers—statewide, county and [[Civil township|township]]. Counties are administrative divisions of the state, and townships are administrative divisions of a county. Both of them exercise state government authority, localized to meet the particular needs of their jurisdictions, as provided by state law. There are 83 [[List of counties in Michigan|counties in Michigan]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Michigan Counties |url=https://www.michigan.gov/som/about-michigan/michigan-counties |website=State of Michigan |access-date=June 29, 2023 |archive-date=June 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230629154922/https://www.michigan.gov/som/about-michigan/michigan-counties |url-status=live }}</ref>

Cities, [[State university system|state universities]], and villages are vested with [[home rule]] powers of varying degrees. Home rule cities can generally do anything not prohibited by law. The fifteen state universities have broad power and can do anything within the parameters of their status as educational institutions that is not prohibited by the state constitution. Villages, by contrast, have limited home rule and are not completely autonomous from the county and township in which they are located.

There are two types of township in Michigan: ''general law'' township and ''charter''. [[Charter township]] status was created by the Legislature in 1947 and grants additional powers and stream-lined administration in order to provide greater protection against annexation by a city. {{as of|2001|April}}, there were 127 charter townships in Michigan. In general, charter townships have many of the same powers as a city but without the same level of obligations. For example, a charter township can have its own fire department, water and sewer department, police department, and so on—just like a city—but it is not ''required'' to have those things, whereas cities ''must'' provide those services. Charter townships can opt to use county-wide services instead, such as deputies from the county sheriff's office instead of a home-based force of ordinance officers.

{{Largest cities
| country = Michigan
| stat_ref = [[2020 United States census|2020 U.S. census]]:<ref name="2020Census">{{cite web |title = Explore Census Data |url = https://data.census.gov/cedsci/ |publisher = United States Census Bureau |access-date = September 23, 2021 |archive-date = May 5, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210505140923/https://data.census.gov/cedsci/ |url-status = live }}</ref>
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| div_link = Counties of Michigan{{!}}County

| city_1 = Detroit
| div_1 = Wayne County, Michigan{{!}}Wayne
| pop_1 = 639,111
| img_1 = Detroit Skyline from Windsor, Ontario 9-5-2024.jpg

| city_2 = Grand Rapids, Michigan{{!}}Grand Rapids
| div_2 = Kent County, Michigan{{!}}Kent
| pop_2 = 198,917
| img_2 = Grand Rapids April 2022.jpg

| city_3 = Warren, Michigan{{!}}Warren
| div_3 = Macomb County, Michigan{{!}}Macomb
| pop_3 = 139,387
| img_3 = Warren - Warren Civic Center (50826952147).jpg

| city_4 = Sterling Heights, Michigan{{!}}Sterling Heights
| div_4 = Macomb County, Michigan{{!}}Macomb
| pop_4 = 134,346
| img_4 = Sterling Heights City Hall.jpg

| city_5 = Ann Arbor, Michigan{{!}}Ann Arbor
| div_5 = Washtenaw County, Michigan{{!}}Washtenaw
| pop_5 = 123,851
| img_5 =

| city_6 = Lansing, Michigan{{!}}Lansing
| div_6 = Ingham County, Michigan{{!}}Ingham
| pop_6 = 112,644
| img_6 =

| city_7 = Dearborn, Michigan{{!}}Dearborn
| div_7 = Wayne County, Michigan{{!}}Wayne
| pop_7 = 109,976
| img_7 =

| city_8 = Clinton Charter Township, Michigan{{!}}Clinton Charter Township
| div_8 = Macomb County, Michigan{{!}}Macomb
| pop_8 = 100,513
| img_8 =

| city_9 = Canton Charter Township, Michigan{{!}}Canton Charter Township
| div_9 = Wayne County, Michigan{{!}}Wayne
| pop_9 = 98,659
| img_9 =

| city_10 = Livonia, Michigan{{!}}Livonia
| div_10 = Wayne County, Michigan{{!}}Wayne
| pop_10 = 95,535 
| img_10 =

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