From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishMidlandsMid‧lands /ˈmɪdləndz/ noun → the Midlands —Midland adjective —Midlander noun [countable]
Examples from the Corpus
Midlands• West Devon Beef was offered £1.60 a kilo by meat firms in Somerset and the Midlands.• Miss Scrine conceived her campaign whilst attending an archaeological conference in the Midlands.• I by contrast contrived to leave my grammar school in the Midlands without A levels.• And detectives arrested the farm labourer at dawn yesterday at his home in Solihull, West Midlands.• Walsall Hospitals trust in the West Midlands has the highest.• A similar approach is needed when addressing the problems of car-dependent regions like the West Midlands. 