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Michigan

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Also known as: Great Lakes State
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Randall J. Schaetzl
Professor of Geography, Michigan State University, East Lansing. Author of numerous articles on physical geography.
Randall J. Schaetzl,
Sidney Glazer
Professor of History, Wayne State University, Detroit, 1955–76. Coauthor of Michigan: From Primitive Wilderness to Industrial Commonwealth.
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Michigan, constituent state of the United States of America. Although by the size of its land Michigan ranks only 22nd of the 50 states, the inclusion of the Great Lakes waters over which it has jurisdiction increases its area considerably, placing it 11th in terms of total area. The capital is Lansing, in south-central Michigan. The state’s name is derived from michi-gama, an Ojibwa (Chippewa) word meaning “large lake.” Michigan is the only one of the states to be split into two large land segments: the sparsely populated but mineral-rich Upper Peninsula (commonly called “the U.P.”) slices eastward from northern ...(100 of 8496 words)

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