Nine-County Region
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remove opinion, Hendricks Country is also closely tied. And you could make an argument for Boone and the others
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The Nine-County Region (Metro Indianapolis Area) is an informal name to an area comprising (not surprisingly) nine counties in the center of the U.S. state of Indiana with a population of almost 2 million residents. More specifically, the Nine-County Region describes the agglomeration of the metropolitan area of Indianapolis, the State's capital. It includes Marion, Boone, Hamilton, Madison, Hendricks, Hancock, Morgan, Johnson, and Shelby counties. The counties surrounding Marion are sometimes referred to as the "Doughnut Counties" (referring to the circular shape of the region, with Marion County as the "hole" in the center).
Indiana towns and cities within the Nine-County Area include Indianapolis, Beech Grove, Lawrence, Southport and Speedway, and (all part of Unigov) in Marion County; Lebanon and Zionsville in Boone County; Carmel, Fishers and Noblesville in Hamilton County; Anderson and Pendleton in Madison County; Greenfield in Hancock County; Shelbyville in Shelby County; Greenwood in Johnson County; Martinsville and Mooresville in Morgan County; and Avon, Brownsburg, Clermont and Plainfield in Hendricks County.
Currently, the region is struggling to determine whether it will remain administratively fragmented along county and municipal borders or whether at least some part of it will coalesce into an integrated regional plan. Some attempts have been made to integrate transportation, but these have mostly been towards the north. There is de facto integration of some water services from the fact that the same private corporation happens to serve Indianapolis and some outlying municipal water needs.
