Leelanau County is a county located in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 21,708. The county seat was until recently the unincorporated community of Leland. On 3 August 2004, county voters approved a proposal to move the county seat to Suttons Bay, closer to the county's geographic center. In 2008, the county offices completed their move to a new government center built on 45 acres of county-owned land, one mile east of the unincorporated village of Lake Leelanau, where a new county law enforcement center was completed. Leelanau County is included in the Traverse City Micropolitan Statistical Area of northern Michigan. In 2011, the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, located in the county, won the title of Most Beautiful Place in America in a poll by morning news show Good Morning America.
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