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Metropolitan Borough of Solihull

The Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, often colloquially just called Solihull, is a metropolitan borough in the east of the West Midlands county, England. It is named after its largest town, Solihull, from which Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council is based. Much of the borough is considered to be part of the West Midlands conurbation, and the borough's area was historically in Northwestern Warwickshire. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region (code UKG32) and is one of seven boroughs or unitary districts that comprise the "West Midlands" NUTS 2 region.
Much of the large residential population in the north of the borough centres on the communities of Castle Bromwich, Marston Green and Smith's Wood as well as the towns of Chelmsley Wood and Fordbridge. In the south are the towns of Shirley and Solihull. The borough also contains the large villages of Knowle, Dorridge, Meriden and Balsall Common, all of which are outside of the West Midlands conurbation, to its east.
In 2011, Solihull formed part of the Greater Birmingham & Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership along with neighbouring authorities Birmingham, Bromsgrove, Cannock Chase, East Staffordshire, Lichfield, Redditch, Tamworth and Wyre Forest. This however was discontinued in the 2020s.