Michigan

Michigan is an American state in the upper and the heart of the Great Lakes region. It has many attractions, famous landmarks, and scenic state and national parks and forests.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Detroit and Lansing.

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is a major metropolis in the state of Michigan that has had a profound impact on the world. From the advent of the automotive assembly line to the Motown sound, modern techno and rock music, continues to shape both American and global culture.

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is a pleasant city, and as Michigan's state capital, it is home to many government offices. Downtown has a historic shopping district amidst the campus of Thomas M. Cooley Law School.

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— often abbreviated as AA or A2 — is a picturesque city surrounding the University of Michigan. It has a strong bent toward the arts, and an attractive and pedestrian-friendly downtown.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Southeast Michigan and West Michigan.

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is the region of Michigan closest to and the province of . Although the name is commonly used to mean "the area", and the state's megalopolis is an important presence, it contains considerably more than the Motor City.

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is roughly the westernmost third of the "palm" of the Lower Pensinsula of Michigan. It includes most of the Lake Michigan shoreline, as well as the nearby cities and towns, farmland, and woodland.

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The is a region of Michigan. It is not connected to the rest of the state, but is connected at its southwestern end to . Therefore, in general the is located much closer to , and the neighboring state of Wisconsin than with the Lower Peninsula, separated by a small channel connecting Lakes Michigan and Huron.

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should not be confused with the . Although a bit inaccurate, the term "Northern Michigan" is used to refer to only the northern portion of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan… the "fingers" of that mitten-shaped body of land.

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is a region of the state that had a population of 1,879,076. Most area residents live in and around the hub cities of , Lansing, , , and .

Michigan

Latitude of center
44.1622° or 44° 9′ 44″ north
Longitude of center
-85.166° or 85° 9′ 58″ west
Population
10,100,000
Elevation
1,293 feet (394 metres)
Abbreviation
“MI”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316966612
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
5001836
Wiki­data ID
Q1166
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Michigan” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Michigan”
  • Afrikaans: “Staat Michigan”
  • Albanian: “Michigan”
  • Albanian: “Miçigen”
  • Amharic: “ሚሺጋን”
  • Arabic: “ميشيغان”
  • Aragonese: “Michigan”
  • Armenian: “Միչիգան”
  • Arpitan: “Mich·igan”
  • Asturian: “Michigan”
  • Aymara: “Michigan suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Miçiqan”
  • Balinese: “Michigan”
  • Basque: “Michigan”
  • Bavarian: “Michigan”
  • Belarusian: “Мічыган”
  • Belarusian: “Штат Мічыган”
  • Bengali: “মিশিগান”
  • Bhojpuri: “मिसिगन”
  • Bishnupriya: “মিশিগান”
  • Bislama: “Michigan”
  • Bosnian: “Michigan”
  • Breton: “Michigan”
  • Bulgarian: “Мичиган”
  • Burmese: “မီချီဂန်ပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Estat de Michigan”
  • Catalan: “Michigan”
  • Cebuano: “Michigan”
  • Central Bikol: “Michigan”
  • Central Kurdish: “میشیگان”
  • Chavacano: “Michigan”
  • Chechen: “Мичиган”
  • Cherokee: “ᎻᏏᎦᏂ”
  • Chinese: “Michigan”
  • Chinese: “密执安”
  • Chinese: “密执安州”
  • Chinese: “密歇根”
  • Chinese: “密歇根州”
  • Chinese: “密芝根”
  • Chinese: “密芝根州”
  • Chinese: “密西根”
  • Chinese: “密西根州”
  • Choctaw: “Michikan”
  • Chuvash: “Мичиган”
  • Cornish: “Michigan”
  • Corsican: “Michigan”
  • Corsican: “Statu di u Michigan”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Miçigan”
  • Croatian: “Michigan”
  • Czech: “Michigan”
  • Czech: “State of Michigan”
  • Dagbani: “Michigan”
  • Danish: “Michigan”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Michigan”
  • Dutch: “Michigan”
  • Eastern Mari: “Мичиган”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميشيجان”
  • Esperanto: “Miĉigano”
  • Estonian: “Michigan”
  • Ewe: “Michigan”
  • Faroese: “Michigan”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Michigan”
  • Finnish: “Michigan”
  • French: “État du Michigan”
  • French: “Michigan”
  • Gagauz: “Michigan”
  • Galician: “Estado de Míchigan”
  • Galician: “Míchigan”
  • Georgian: “მიჩიგანი”
  • Georgian: “მიჩიგანის შტატი”
  • German: “Michigan”
  • Gothic: “𐌼𐌹𐍃𐌾𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌹𐌽”
  • Greek: “Μίσιγκαν”
  • Guarani: “Michigan”
  • Gujarati: “મિશિગન”
  • Haitian: “Michigàn”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Michigan”
  • Hausa: “Michigan”
  • Hawaiian: “Mikikana”
  • Hebrew: “מישיגן”
  • Hindi: “मिशिगन”
  • Hungarian: “Michigan”
  • Icelandic: “Michigan”
  • Ido: “Michigan”
  • Igbo: “Michigan”
  • Iloko: “Michigan”
  • Inari Sami: “Michigan”
  • Indonesian: “Michigan”
  • Interlingua: “Michigan”
  • Interlingue: “Michigan”
  • Inupiaq: “Michigan”
  • Inupiaq: “Misrigiñ”
  • Irish: “Michigan”
  • Italian: “Michigan”
  • Italian: “Micigan”
  • Italian: “Stato del Michigan”
  • Japanese: “ミシガン州”
  • Javanese: “Michigan”
  • Kabiyè: “Mizigaanii”
  • Kabyle: “Michigan”
  • Kalmyk: “Мичиигн”
  • Kannada: “ಮಿಚಿಗನ್”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Мичиган”
  • Kashmiri: “مِشیگن”
  • Kazakh: “Мичиган”
  • Kirghiz: “Мичиган (штат)”
  • Kirghiz: “Мичиган”
  • Komering: “Michigan”
  • Korean: “미시간”
  • Korean: “미시간주”
  • Kurdish: “Michigan”
  • Ladin: “Michigan”
  • Ladino: “Michigan”
  • Lao: “ລັດມິຊິແກນ”
  • Latin: “Michigania”
  • Latvian: “Mičigana”
  • Ligurian: “Michigan”
  • Limburgan: “Michigan”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Michigan”
  • Literary Chinese: “密歇根州”
  • Lithuanian: “Mičiganas”
  • Lombard: “Michigan”
  • Low German: “Michigan”
  • Luxembourgish: “Michigan”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Michigan”
  • Macedonian: “Мичиген”
  • Maithili: “मिचिगन”
  • Malagasy: “Michigan”
  • Malay: “Michigan”
  • Malayalam: “മിഷിഗൺ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯃꯤꯆꯤꯒꯥꯟ”
  • Manx: “Michigan”
  • Maori: “Mehekina”
  • Maori: “Michigan”
  • Marathi: “मिशिगन”
  • Mazanderani: “میشیگان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Michigan”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Michigan”
  • Mingrelian: “მიჩიგანიშ შტატი”
  • Mongolian: “Мичиган”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ميشيڭان”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ميشيݣن”
  • Nauru: “Michigan”
  • Navajo: “Dilkʼischíító Hahoodzo”
  • Nepali: “मिचिगन”
  • Nepali: “मिसिगन”
  • Newari: “मिशिगन”
  • Northern Frisian: “Michigan”
  • Northern Luri: “میشیگان”
  • Northern Sami: “Michigan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mich.”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Michigan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Michigan”
  • Norwegian: “Michigan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Estat de Michigan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Michigan”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܫܝܓܢ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Michigan”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Miscegan”
  • Oromo: “Michigan”
  • Ossetian: “Мичиган”
  • Pali: “मिसिगन”
  • Pampanga: “Michigan”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਿਸ਼ੀਗਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Michigan”
  • Persian: “میشیگان”
  • Picard: “Michigan”
  • Piemontese: “Michigan”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Michigaan”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Mishigaan”
  • Polish: “Michigan”
  • Portuguese: “Michigan”
  • Portuguese: “Michigão”
  • Pushto: “میشیګان”
  • Quechua: “Michigan suyu”
  • Romanian: “Michigan”
  • Romansh: “Michigan”
  • Russia Buriat: “Мичиган”
  • Russian: “Мичиган”
  • Samogitian: “Mėčėgans”
  • Sanskrit: “मिशिगन”
  • Sardinian: “Istadu de su Michigan”
  • Sardinian: “Michigan”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Michigan”
  • Scots: “Michigan”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Michigan”
  • Serbian: “Мичиген”
  • Serbian: “Мишиген”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Michigan”
  • Sicilian: “Michigan”
  • Silesian: “Michigan”
  • Sindhi: “مشي گن”
  • Sinhala: “මිචිගන්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Michigan”
  • Slovak: “Michigan”
  • Slovenian: “Michigan”
  • Somali: “Mishiigan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “میشیقان”
  • South Azerbaijani: “میشیگان ایالتی”
  • Spanish: “El Estado de El Mitón”
  • Spanish: “El Estado de los Grandes Lagos”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Míchigan”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Wolverine”
  • Spanish: “Mích.”
  • Spanish: “Míchigan (Estados Unidos)”
  • Spanish: “Michigan”
  • Spanish: “Míchigan”
  • Swahili: “Michigan”
  • Swedish: “Michigan”
  • Sylheti: “ꠝꠤꠡꠤꠉꠣꠘ”
  • Tagalog: “Michigan”
  • Tajik: “Мичиган”
  • Talysh: “Micigan”
  • Tamil: “மிச்சிகன்”
  • Tatar: “Мичиган”
  • Telugu: “మిషిగన్”
  • Thai: “มิชิแกน”
  • Thai: “รัฐมิชิแกน”
  • Tibetan: “མི་ཅི་གྷན།”
  • Tumbuka: “Michigan”
  • Turkish: “Mich.”
  • Turkish: “Michigan eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Michigan, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri”
  • Turkish: “Michigan”
  • Turkish: “State of Michigan”
  • Turkish: “US-MI”
  • Uighur: “Michigan Shitati”
  • Uighur: “مىچىگان ئىشتاتى”
  • Ukrainian: “Мічиган”
  • Ukrainian: “Мічиґан”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Michigan”
  • Urdu: “مشی گن”
  • Uzbek: “Michigan”
  • Venetian: “Michigan”
  • Vietnamese: “Michigan”
  • Vlaams: “Michigan”
  • Vlax Romani: “Michigan”
  • Volapük: “Michigan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Michigan”
  • Welsh: “Michigan”
  • Western Armenian: “Միշիկըն”
  • Western Frisian: “Michigan”
  • Western Frisian: “Steat Michigan”
  • Western Mari: “Мичиган”
  • Western Panjabi: “مشیگن”
  • Wu Chinese: “密歇根州”
  • Xhosa: “IMishigeni”
  • Yakut: “Мичиган”
  • Yiddish: “מישיגן”
  • Yoruba: “Michigan”
  • Yue Chinese: “密芝根州”
  • Zeeuws: “Michigan”
  • Zhuang: “Michigan”
  • “ma Misikan”
  • “Mėčėgans”
  • “MI”
  • “Michigan”
  • “Mìchigan”
  • “Q1166”
  • “मिशिगन”

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