Midwest
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Midwest
- Region with 65,000,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 1,099 feet (335 metres)
- Description: one of the four U.S. geographic regions
- Also known as“Middle West”“Midwestern United States”
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Latitude of center
42.6598° or 42° 39′ 35″ north
Longitude of center
-93.9386° or 93° 56′ 19″ west
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Midwest” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “وسط غرب الولايات المتحدة”
- Armenian: “Միջին Արևմուտք”
- Asturian: “Mediu Oeste d’Estaos Xuníos”
- Asturian: “Middle West”
- Asturian: “Midwest”
- Azerbaijani: “Orta Qərbi ABŞ”
- Basque: “Mendebalde ertaina”
- Basque: “Mendebaldeko Erdialdeko Estatu Batuak”
- Belarusian: “Сярэдні Захад ЗША”
- Belarusian: “Сярэдні Захад”
- Bengali: “মধ্যপশ্চিম যুক্তরাষ্ট্র”
- Bosnian: “Srednji zapad”
- Bulgarian: “Среден запад”
- Bulgarian: “Среден Запад”
- Catalan: “Mig-Oest dels Estats Units”
- Catalan: “Oest Mitjà dels Estats Units”
- Catalan: “Oest Mitjà”
- Central Kurdish: “ویلایەتەکانی ڕۆژاوای ناوەڕاستی ئەمریکا”
- Chinese: “美国中西部”
- Chinese: “美國中西部”
- Croatian: “Srednji zapad”
- Croatian: “Srednji Zapad”
- Czech: “Středozápad Spojených států amerických”
- Czech: “Středozápad Spojených států”
- Czech: “Středozápad USA”
- Danish: “Middle West”
- Danish: “Midtvesten”
- Danish: “Midwest”
- Dimli (individual language): “Werteyrocawanê Dewletanê Yewbiyayeyan”
- Dutch: “Midden-Westen”
- Dutch: “Middenwesten”
- Dutch: “Midwesten”
- Dutch: “Midwestern United States”
- Egyptian Arabic: “غرب وسطانى”
- Esperanto: “Mezokcidenta Usono”
- Esperanto: “Middle West”
- Esperanto: “Midwest”
- Esperanto: “Usona Mez-Okcidento”
- Esperanto: “Usona Mez-Uesto”
- Estonian: “Kesk-Lääs”
- Finnish: “Keskilänsi”
- Finnish: “Yhdysvaltain keskilänsi”
- French: “Mid-Ouest”
- French: “Middle West”
- French: “Midwest”
- Galician: “Medio Oeste”
- German: “Amerikanischer Mittelwesten”
- German: “Mittlerer Westen”
- Greek: “Μεσοδυτικές Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες”
- Hebrew: “המערב התיכון”
- Hindi: “मध्य पश्निम संयुक्त राज्य”
- Hungarian: “Közép-Nyugat”
- Icelandic: “Miðvesturríkin”
- Indonesian: “Amerika Serikat Barat Tengah”
- Indonesian: “Barat Tengah Amerika Serikat”
- Indonesian: “Midwest”
- Irish: “Meániarthar na Stát Aontaithe”
- Italian: “Medio Occidente degli Stati Uniti d’America”
- Italian: “Mid-West”
- Italian: “Midwest”
- Italian: “Stati Uniti d’America medio-occidentali”
- Italian: “Stati Uniti medio occidentali”
- Japanese: “アメリカ中西部”
- Japanese: “アメリカ合衆国中西部”
- Japanese: “中西部”
- Japanese: “米国中西部”
- Korean: “미국 중서부”
- Latvian: “Vidējie Rietumi”
- Lithuanian: “JAV Vidurio Vakarai”
- Lithuanian: “Vidurio Vakarai”
- Luxembourgish: “Mëttlere Westen”
- Macedonian: “Среден Запад”
- Malay: “Barat Tengah Amerika Syarikat”
- Newari: “मध्यपश्चिमी संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका”
- Newari: “मिदवेस्तर्न संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका”
- Northern Sami: “Gaskaoarji”
- Northern Sami: “Gaskaviesttar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Midtvesten”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Midwest”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Midt-Vesten”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Midtvesten”
- Norwegian: “Midtvesten”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Oèst Mejan dels Estats Units”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Oèst Mejan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Oèst Mijan”
- Persian: “ایالت های غرب میانهٔ آمریکا”
- Persian: “ایالت های غرب میانه امریکا”
- Persian: “ایالت های غرب میانه ایالات متحده”
- Persian: “ایالت‌های غرب میانه آمریکا”
- Persian: “ایالت‌های غرب میانهٔ آمریکا”
- Persian: “ایالت‌های غرب میانه امریکا”
- Persian: “ایالت‌های غرب میانهٔ امریکا”
- Persian: “ایالت‌های غرب میانه ایالات متحده”
- Persian: “ایالت‌های غرب میانهٔ ایالات متحده”
- Persian: “غرب میانه امریکا”
- Persian: “غرب میانه”
- Piemontese: “Midwest”
- Polish: “Middle West”
- Polish: “Midwest”
- Polish: “Midwestern United States”
- Portuguese: “Centro-Oeste”
- Portuguese: “Meio-Oeste”
- Portuguese: “Região centro-oeste dos estados unidos da américa”
- Portuguese: “Região Centro-Oeste dos Estados Unidos”
- Romanian: “Midwestern United States”
- Romanian: “Vestul mijlociu al Statelor Unite ale Americii”
- Romanian: “Vestul mijlociu”
- Russian: “Средний Запад США”
- Russian: “Средний Запад”
- Sardinian: “Istados Unidos Otzidentales Mèdios”
- Serbian: “Midwest”
- Serbian: “Srednji zapad”
- Serbian: “Амерички средњи запад”
- Serbian: “Мидвест”
- Serbian: “Средњи запад”
- Serbian: “Средњи Запад”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Srednji zapad”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Srednji Zapad”
- Slovak: “Midwest”
- Slovak: “Midwestern United States”
- Slovak: “Stredozápad Spojených štátov”
- Slovak: “Stredozápad”
- Slovenian: “ameriški Srednji zahod”
- Slovenian: “Srednji zahod ZDA”
- Slovenian: “Srednji zahod Združenih držav Amerike”
- Spanish: “Medio oeste de Estados Unidos”
- Spanish: “Medio Oeste de Estados Unidos”
- Spanish: “Medio oeste de los Estados Unidos”
- Spanish: “Medio Oeste de los Estados Unidos”
- Spanish: “Medio Oeste”
- Spanish: “Middle West”
- Spanish: “Midwest”
- Spanish: “Midwestern United States”
- Swedish: “Mellanvästern”
- Swedish: “Mellanvästra USA”
- Swedish: “Midwest”
- Tamil: “நடுமேற்கு ஐக்கிய அமெரிக்கா”
- Tatar: “Урта көнбатыш”
- Thai: “ภาคตะวันตกกลางของสหรัฐ”
- Thai: “มิดเวสต์”
- Turkish: “Midwestern United States”
- Turkish: “Ortabatı eyaletleri”
- Turkish: “Ortabatı eyâletleri”
- Ukrainian: “Середній Захід”
- Urdu: “وسط مغربی ریاستہائے متحدہ”
- Venetian: “Stati Unii mèdio-osidentałi”
- Vietnamese: “Các tiểu bang Trung Tây”
- Vietnamese: “Trung Tây Hoa Kì”
- Vietnamese: “Trung Tây Hoa Kỳ”
- Vietnamese: “Trung Tây Mĩ”
- Vietnamese: “Trung Tây Mỹ”
- Vlaams: “Midwestelike Verenigde Stoaten”
- Volapük: “Lamerikän Zänodavesüdik”
- Western Frisian: “Midwesten”
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