Michigan (usa)

Michigan

Michigan ranks 2,907th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Landau, Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica, and Hackney Central. Memorable people born in Michigan include Dean Cain, Charlotte Mineau, and Brian Acton. Memorable people who died in Michigan include Meindert DeJong. Michigan has been the birth place of many actors, and computer scientists and the death place of many writers. Michigan is located in United States.

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States. It borders Wisconsin to the southwest in the Upper Peninsula, and Indiana and Ohio to the south in the Lower Peninsula; it is also connected by Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, and Erie to Minnesota and Illinois, and the Canadian province of Ontario. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of 96,716 sq mi (250,490 km2), Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the largest by area east of the Mississippi River. Its capital is Lansing, and its largest city is Detroit. Metro Detroit is among the nation's most populous and largest metropolitan economies. The name derives from a gallicized variant of the original Ojibwe word ᒥᓯᑲᒥ, meaning "large water" or "large lake". Read more on Wikipedia