MotorCities National Heritage Area is a special place in the United States, designated by the federal government to celebrate and share information about the automobile industry in Metro Detroit. It covers parts of 16 counties in southern Michigan.

The area includes places and events related to the automobile industry, as well as how the industry affected workers, communities, and the environment. It includes more than 1,200 sites connected to cars, such as the Henry Ford Museum, Fair Lane, Ford factories, the Automotive Hall of Fame, the Sloan Museum, and the Arab American National Museum.

The counties in the heritage area are Saginaw, Clinton, Shiawassee, Genesee, Macomb, Oakland, Livingston, Ingham, Eaton, Kalamazoo, Calhoun, Jackson, Washtenaw, Wayne, Monroe, and Lenawee. These counties include the Detroit metropolitan area and cities like Saginaw, Flint, Lansing, Ann Arbor, Battle Creek, Jackson, and Kalamazoo.

The MotorCities National Heritage Area was created on November 6, 1998, and was first called the Automobile National Heritage Area. Later, its name was changed to MotorCities National Heritage Area.