Although leaves can be seen in many different textures and sizes, typically a leaf is a thin, dorsiventrally flattened organ, borne above ground and specialized for photosynthesis.
As of the 2010 census, Kalamazoo had a total population of  74,262. Kalamazoo is the major city of the Kalamazoo-Portage Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a population of 335,340 as of 2015.[6] Kalamazoo is equidistant from the major American cities of Chicago and Detroit, each less than 150 miles away.
This article is about the village in Kalamazoo County. For the five townships named Richland, see Richland Township, Michigan (disambiguation). Richland is a village in Kalamazoo County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 791 at the 2010 census. The village is within Richland Township, about nine miles northeast of Kalamazoo.