Faro is the central place with a metro region that includes 391,819 inhabitants.

Dow Chemical is a significant company in the metro region.

The metro region is also the fastest growing in the Midwest and among the fastest growing outside of the Sun Belt.

There are 24 metro regions that have central major fire stations with supplemental smaller stations in neighboring villages and cities.

The central city of Victoria lends its name and cultural influence to many places and organizations in the metro region.

It is about an hour outside of the Washington, D.C. metro region.

Multiple connecting freeways in the vicinity facilitate its central access to the metro region.

The water table is relatively shallow, held by the extensive layer of clays that underlay the metro region.

TBD covers the entire metro region and includes a section on its homepage for news personalized to a user's zip code.

This page is about the concert hall; for the metro region surrounding Chicago, see Chicago metropolitan area.