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Where is UM?

(1) The state of Michigian is surrounded by the Great Lakes. Ann Arbor is located within the circle.

(2) The state of Michigan is located within the dotted lines. The state is divided into two parts: there is a lower peninsula, with Ann Arbor in the SE corner, and an upper peninsula.

(3) Ann Arbor is on the left. The Detroit Metro Airport is in the center. The city of Detroit, which sits on the river that separates the United States from Canada, is on the right.

(4) The circle is around Ann Arbor; the square is the location of the Detroit Metro Airport, which is about 60 km from Detroit itself (off to the east). The city of Detroit sits to the north of the Canadian city of Windsor, Ontario. This is one of the few spots where the country of Canada is south of the United States.

(5) This image encompasses all of Ann Arbor. The dotted line outlines (roughly) the perimeter where the University of Michigan is located. The square in the center is the "Central Campus" area, where the original campus, including chemistry, is located.

(6) A closer view of the campus area. You can see the 120,000 seat Michigan Stadium in the lower left (SW) corner. Chemistry is circled, and sits at the NE corner of the Central Campus. The Oxford Housing is located to the east of campus, in the other circled area.

(7) The Chemistry building is show on the left, in the NE corner of the Central Campus. The Oxford Housing is on the right.

(8) And, of course, the one everyone wants to see: how does the Ann Arbor/Detroit area compare with the Beijing area. On the left image: Beijing in the big circle. On the right image, the little circle on the left is Ann Arbor, the half-circle on the right is Detroit, and the little circle in the middle is the location of the Detroit Metro airport.

One last fact. The number of people living in the circle that circumscribes Beijing is (by official count) roughly 16,000,000. The number of people in the state of Michigan is 10,000,000 (although, to be fair, about 50% of them are located in the "greater Detroit area," would you can see on the right hand image as the city-gray that surrounds what is circled for Detroit. In other words, if the greater Detroit area has the same population density as Beijing, there would be roughly 65,000,000 people living there (or, about 20% of the US population).