Rust Belt
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The Rust Belt is a derogatory term for the region of the United States, made up mostly of places in the Midwest and Great Lakes, though the term may be used to include any location where industry declined starting around 1980. Rust refers to the deindustrialization, or economic decline, population loss, and urban decay due to the shrinking of its once-powerful industrial sector. The term gained popularity in the U.S. in the 1980s.
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International equivalents
The following regions, areas, and cities are known to have some similarities to the rust belt in the United States:
- Northern England – another former industrial centre which began declining in the 1980s
- Southern Ontario - Canadian counterpart, the Canadian Rust belt does not include Toronto and Ottawa
- Ruhr Area, Germany
- Bergslagen, Sweden
- Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
- Northeast China – a former centre of heavy industry that declined for other reasons
- Donbass - region in Eastern Ukraine
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See also
- Dutch disease
- Outsourcing
- Early 1980s recession in the United States
- Decline of Detroit
- Economy of Youngstown, Ohio
- Shrinking cities in the United States
- Economy of the United States
- List of belt regions of the United States
- Deindustrialization
- Steel crisis
- Banana Belt
- Bible Belt
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