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U.S. state
A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...

 of Michigan
Michigan
Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

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  • .mi.us – Internet
    Internet
    The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

     second-level domain
    Second-level domain
    In the Domain Name System hierarchy, a second-level domain is a domain that is directly below a top-level domain . For example, in example.com, example is the second-level domain of the .com TLD....

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  • 26th State to join the United States
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...


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  • Administrative divisions of Michigan
    Administrative divisions of Michigan
    The state of Michigan is largely divided in the same way as many other U.S. states, but is distinct in its usage of charter townships. Michigan ranks 13th among the fifty states in terms of the number of local governmental entities....

  • Agriculture in Michigan
  • Alger, Smith and Co.
  • Alpena News
    Alpena News
    The Alpena News is a general daily newspaper in the City of Alpena, Michigan. USA. It has an approximate circulation of 10,000, and is published by Ogden Newspapers Inc. News reports are available on line. The paper was founded in 1902. The paper currently has between 20 to 50 employees.It is...

  • Ambassador Bridge
    Ambassador Bridge
    The Ambassador Bridge is a suspension bridge that connects Detroit, Michigan, in the United States, with Windsor, Ontario, in Canada. It is the busiest international border crossing in North America in terms of trade volume: more than 25 percent of all merchandise trade between the United States...

  • Amusement parks in Michigan
  • Ann Arbor Railroad
  • Aquaria in Michigan
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  • Arboreta in Michigan
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  • Archaeological sites in Michigan
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  • Area codes in Michigan
  • Art museums and galleries in Michigan
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  • Astronomical observatories in Michigan
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  • Bath School disaster
    Bath School disaster
    The Bath School disaster is the name given to three bombings in Bath Township, Michigan, on May 18, 1927, which killed 38 elementary school children, two teachers, four other adults and the bomber himself; at least 58 people were injured. Most of the victims were children in the second to sixth...

  • Binder Park Zoo
    Binder Park Zoo
    The Binder Park Zoo is a zoo that opened in 1977 near Battle Creek, Michigan. Binder Park Zoo is one of the largest zoos in Michigan, and features a large array of animals and plants, including the Wild Africa Exhibit. It includes a train, a tram, and a carousel...

  • Blue Water Bridge
    Blue Water Bridge
    The Blue Water Bridge is a twin-span international bridge across the St. Clair River that links Port Huron, Michigan, USA and Sarnia, Ontario, Canada...

  • Big Chief Sugar
    Michigan Sugar Company
    Michigan Sugar Company is an agricultural cooperative, based in Bay City, Michigan, that specializes in the processing of beet sugar. Founded in 1906, Michigan Sugar sells beet sugar under the brand names Big Chief and Pioneer....

  • Botanical gardens in Michigan
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  • Buildings and structures in Michigan
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  • Cabinet counties
    Cabinet counties
    The Cabinet counties of the U.S. state of Michigan are those named after President Andrew Jackson and people who served in his Cabinet. The Michigan Territorial legislature created twelve counties in 1829, naming eight of them after members of the recently elected Jackson's cabinet. Cass County was...

  • Capital of the State of Michigan
    Lansing, Michigan
    Lansing is the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located mostly in Ingham County, although small portions of the city extend into Eaton County. The 2010 Census places the city's population at 114,297, making it the fifth largest city in Michigan...

  • Capitol of the State of Michigan
    Michigan State Capitol
    The Michigan State Capitol is the building housing the legislative and executive branches of the government of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located in the state capital of Lansing in Ingham County...
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  • Casinos in Michigan
  • Cass Lake (Michigan)
    Cass Lake (Michigan)
    Cass Lake is the largest lake in Oakland County, Michigan. It covers 1,280 acres and has a maximum depth of 123 ft . It is bordered by the cities, villages, and townships of Waterford Township, West Bloomfield Township, Orchard Lake Village, and Keego Harbor.Dodge #4 State Park is located on the...

  • Central Michigan
    Central Michigan
    Central Michigan, often called Mid Michigan, is a region in the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. Southern Michigan can be considered as a subregion of Central Michigan. As its name implies, it is the central area of the Lower Peninsula. Lower Michigan is said to resemble a mitten, and...


  • Chicago and West Michigan Railway
    Chicago and West Michigan Railway
    The Chicago and West Michigan Railway is a defunct railroad which operated in the state of Michigan between 1881 and 1899. It was one of the three companies which merged to become the Pere Marquette Railway....

  • Christmas, Michigan
    Christmas, Michigan
    Christmas is an unincorporated community in Au Train Township of Alger County in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located on M-28 a few miles northwest of Munising at . Christmas is located near the Bay Furnace campgrounds on Lake Superior in the Hiawatha National Forest...

  • Chrysler Corporation
  • Cincinnati, Saginaw and Mackinaw Railroad
  • Climate of Michigan
  • Clinton-Kalamazoo Canal
    Clinton-Kalamazoo Canal
    The Clinton–Kalamazoo Canal is an abandoned canal in Michigan that was only partially completed. The canal was to connect Lake St. Clair with Lake Michigan. The inspiration came from the success of the Erie Canal in New York, which was completed in 1825...

  • Communications in Michigan
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  • Convention centers in Michigan
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  • Copper Country
    Copper Country
    The Copper Country is an area in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States, including all of Keweenaw County, Michigan and most of Houghton, Baraga and Ontonagon counties. The area is so named as copper mining was prevalent there from 1845 until the late 1960s, with one mine ...

  • Copper mining in Michigan
    Copper mining in Michigan
    While it originated thousands of years earlier, copper mining in Michigan became an important industry in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Its rise marked the start of copper mining as a major industry in the United States.-Geology:...

  • Counties of the State of Michigan
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  • Demographics of Michigan
  • Detroit, Michigan
    Detroit, Michigan
    Detroit is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people. As the seat of Wayne County, the city of Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and serves as a major port on the Detroit River...

    , territorial capital 1805-1812 and 1813–1837, state capital 1837-1847
  • Detroit and Mackinac Railway
    Detroit and Mackinac Railway
    The Detroit and Mackinac Railway , informally known as the "Turtle Line", was a railroad operating in the northeastern part of the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The main line stretched from the southern hub at Bay City, to its northern hub at Cheboygan...

  • Detroit Free Press
    Detroit Free Press
    The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, USA. The Sunday edition is entitled the Sunday Free Press. It is sometimes informally referred to as the "Freep"...

  • Detroit Ignition
    Detroit Ignition
    The Detroit Ignition is a dormant American indoor soccer team that has played three seasons, most recently 2008-09.In April 2006, Greg Bibb, president of Hantz Group Sports and Entertainment, introduced the teams as a new Major Indoor Soccer League expansion team. They played at the Compuware...

  • Detroit Lions
    Detroit Lions
    The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League , and play their home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit.Originally based in Portsmouth, Ohio and...

  • Detroit Pistons
    Detroit Pistons
    The Detroit Pistons are a franchise of the National Basketball Association based in Auburn Hills, Michigan. The team's home arena is The Palace of Auburn Hills. It was originally founded in Fort Wayne, Indiana as the Fort Wayne Pistons as a member of the National Basketball League in 1941, where...

  • Detroit Red Wings
    Detroit Red Wings
    The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League , and are one of the Original Six teams of the NHL, along with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, New York...

  • Detroit River
    Detroit River
    The Detroit River is a strait in the Great Lakes system. The name comes from the French Rivière du Détroit, which translates literally as "River of the Strait". The Detroit River has served an important role in the history of Detroit and is one of the busiest waterways in the world. The river...

  • Detroit Shock
    Detroit Shock
    The Detroit Shock was a Women's National Basketball Association team based in Auburn Hills, Michigan. They were the 2003, 2006 and 2008 WNBA champion...

  • Detroit Sunday Journal
    Detroit Sunday Journal
    The Detroit Sunday Journal was a weekly newspaper published from November 19, 1995 through November 21, 1999 by striking workers from The Detroit News and The Detroit Free Press. It was staunchly pro-union, and focused on labor issues as well as local news...

  • Detroit Tigers
    Detroit Tigers
    The Detroit Tigers are a Major League Baseball team located in Detroit, Michigan. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in as part of the Western League. The Tigers have won four World Series championships and have won the American League pennant...

  • Detroit Zoo
    Detroit Zoo
    The Detroit Zoological Park, commonly known as the Detroit Zoo, is located about north of the Detroit city limits at the intersection of Woodward Avenue, 10 Mile Road, and Interstate 696 in Royal Oak and Huntington Woods, Michigan, USA...

  • DeYoung Family Zoo
    DeYoung Family Zoo
    The DeYoung Family Zoo is a zoo that opened to the public in 1990. It is located in Wallace, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan about north of Menominee. The zoo is owned by Bud DeYoung and Carrie Cramer. The facility has many exotic felines, and provides visitor interactions, as well as baby...

  • Dow Chemical Company
    Dow Chemical Company
    The Dow Chemical Company is a multinational corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, United States. As of 2007, it is the second largest chemical manufacturer in the world by revenue and as of February 2009, the third-largest chemical company in the world by market capitalization .Dow...

  • Dow Corning
    Dow Corning
    Dow Corning is a multinational corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, USA. Dow Corning specializes in silicon and silicone-based technology, offering more than 7,000 products and services...


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  • Eastern White Pine
    Eastern White Pine
    Pinus strobus, commonly known as the eastern white pine, is a large pine native to eastern North America, occurring from Newfoundland west to Minnesota and southeastern Manitoba, and south along the Appalachian Mountains to the northern edge of Georgia.It is occasionally known as simply white pine,...

  • Economy of Michigan
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  • Education in Michigan
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  • Elections in the State of Michigan
    Elections in Michigan
    - General elections :*2004 Presidential* 2006 gubernatorial*2006 U.S. Senate*2008 State House*2008 U.S. Senate*2008 Presidential- Presidential primaries :*2008 Democratic*2008 Republican-External links:* from the Secretary of State official website...
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  • Emerald Ash Borer
    Emerald ash borer
    The emerald ash borer is a green beetle native to Asia.In North America the borer is an invasive species, highly destructive to ash trees in its introduced range. The potential damage of this insect rivals that of Chestnut blight and Dutch Elm Disease...

  • Environment of Michigan
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  • Festivals in Michigan
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  • Flag of the State of Michigan
  • Flint/Tri-Cities
    Flint/Tri-Cities
    The Flint/Tri-Cities Region or Saginaw Valley is a region in the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The region is composed of the area surrounding Flint, Michigan, the Tri Cities, the Saginaw Bay and Saginaw River . Flint's population is 102,434; it is the seventh largest city in Michigan...

  • Ford Motor Company
    Ford Motor Company
    Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. In addition to the Ford and Lincoln brands, Ford also owns a small stake in Mazda in Japan and Aston Martin in the UK...

  • Forts in Michigan
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  • Marshall Fredericks
    Marshall Fredericks
    Marshall Maynard Fredericks was an American sculptor.-Biography:Fredericks was born of Scandinavian heritage in Rock Island, Illinois on January 31, 1908. His family moved to Florida for a short time and then settled in Cleveland, Ohio, where he grew up...


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  • Garlyn Zoo
    Garlyn Zoo
    The Garlyn Zoo is a zoo located in Mackinac County, Michigan. At , it is the largest zoo in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.-Location:The zoo is located between Naubinway, Michigan, and Epoufette, Michigan, on US 2...

  • General Motors Corporation
  • Geography of Michigan
    Geography of Michigan
    Michigan consists of two peninsulas that lie between 82°30' to about 90°30' west longitude, and are separated by the Straits of Mackinac, and some nearby islands...
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  • Geology of Michigan
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  • Gerald Ford
    Gerald Ford
    Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974...

  • Ghost towns in Michigan
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  • Golf clubs and courses in Michigan
  • Government of the State of Michigan
    Government of Michigan
    Michigan is governed as a republic, with three branches of government: the executive branch consisting of the Governor of Michigan and the other independently elected constitutional officers; the legislative branch consisting of the House of Representatives and Senate; and the judicial branch...

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  • Governor of the State of Michigan
    Governor of Michigan
    The Governor of Michigan is the chief executive of the U.S. State of Michigan. The current Governor is Rick Snyder, a member of the Republican Party.-Gubernatorial elections and term of office:...
  • Grand River Avenue
    Grand River Avenue
    US Highway 16 , also called Grand River Avenue for much of its length, is one of the principal pre-Interstate roads in the state of Michigan. Before the creation of the United States Numbered Highway System in 1926, the highway had been designated M-16...

  • Great Lakes
    Great Lakes
    The Great Lakes are a collection of freshwater lakes located in northeastern North America, on the Canada – United States border. Consisting of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario, they form the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth by total surface, coming in second by volume...

  • Great Lakes Central Railroad
  • Great Lakes region
    Great Lakes region (North America)
    The Great Lakes region of North America, occasionally known as the Third Coast or the Fresh Coast , includes the eight U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin as well as the Canadian province of Ontario...

  • Great Lakes Waterway
    Great Lakes Waterway
    The Great Lakes Waterway is a system of channels and canals that makes all of the Great Lakes accessible to oceangoing vessels. Its principal civil engineering components are the Welland Canal, bypassing Niagara Falls between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, and the Soo Locks, bypassing the rapids of...

  • Great Seal of the State of Michigan

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  • Hartwick Pines State Park
    Hartwick Pines State Park
    Hartwick Pines State Park is a 9,672 acre State Park in the US state of Michigan, located in Crawford County near Grayling and Interstate 75. It is the third largest state park on Michigan's Lower Peninsula and the state's fifth-biggest park overall...

  • Heritage railroads in Michigan
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  • Hiawatha National Forest
    Hiawatha National Forest
    Hiawatha National Forest is a National Forest in the Upper Peninsula of the state of Michigan in the United States. Commercial logging is conducted in some areas. The United States Forest Service administers this National Forest; it is physically divided into two subunits, commonly called the...

  • Highway system of Michigan
    Michigan Highway System
    The Michigan State Trunkline Highway System is made up of all the highways designated as Interstates, U.S. Highways and State Highways in the US state of Michigan. The system is maintained by the Michigan Department of Transportation and comprises of trunklines in all 83 counties of Michigan on...

  • Hiking trails in Michigan
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  • History of Michigan
    History of Michigan
    See also Timeline of Michigan history.Thousands of years before the arrival of the first Europeans, eight indigenous tribes lived in what is today the state of Michigan...
    • Historical outline of Michigan
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  • Huron National Forest
  • Huron-Manistee National Forests
    Huron-Manistee National Forests
    The Huron-Manistee National Forests are two national forests combined in 1945 for administration purposes and which comprise of public lands, including of wetlands, extending across the northern lower peninsula of Michigan. The Huron-Manistee National Forests provide recreation opportunities...

  • Houghton, Michigan
    Houghton, Michigan
    Houghton is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan's Upper Peninsula and largest city in the Copper Country on the Keweenaw Peninsula. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 7,708. It is the county seat of Houghton County...


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  • Images of Michigan
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  • Interlochen State Park
    Interlochen State Park
    Interlochen State Park is the State of Michigan's first officially recognized state park. Situated between two freshwater lakes , it is a popular camping destination. It was established by the Michigan Legislature in 1917; $60,000 was paid for the land...

  • Islands of Michigan
  • Isle Royale National Park
    Isle Royale National Park
    Isle Royale National Park is a U.S. National Park in the state of Michigan. Isle Royale, the largest island in Lake Superior, is over 45 miles in length and 9 miles wide at its widest point. The park is made of Isle Royale itself and approximately 400 smaller islands, along with any submerged...


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  • Mackinac Bridge
    Mackinac Bridge
    The Mackinac Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Straits of Mackinac to connect the non-contiguous Upper and Lower peninsulas of the U.S. state of Michigan. Opened in 1957, the bridge is the third longest in total suspension in the world and the longest suspension bridge between anchorages...

  • Manistee National Forest
  • Maps of Michigan
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  • Jacques Marquette
    Jacques Marquette
    Father Jacques Marquette S.J. , sometimes known as Père Marquette, was a French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement, Sault Ste. Marie, and later founded St. Ignace, Michigan...

  • Marquette, Michigan
    Marquette, Michigan
    Marquette is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Marquette County. The population was 21,355 at the 2010 census, making it the most populated city of the Upper Peninsula. Marquette is a major port on Lake Superior, primarily for shipping iron ore and is the home of Northern...

  • Merit Network
    Merit Network
    Merit Network, Inc., is a nonprofit member-governed organization providing high-performance computer networking and related services to educational, government, health care, and nonprofit organizations, primarily in Michigan...

  • Metro Detroit
    Metro Detroit
    The Detroit metropolitan area, often referred to as Metro Detroit, is the metropolitan area located in Southeast Michigan centered on the city of Detroit which shares an international border with Windsor, Ontario. The Detroit metropolitan area is the second largest U.S. metropolitan area...

  • MI – United States Postal Service
    United States Postal Service
    The United States Postal Service is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for providing postal service in the United States...

     postal code for the State of Michigan
  • Mid-Michigan
  • Midwest
  • Michiana
    Michiana
    Michiana is a region in northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan centered on the city of South Bend, Indiana. The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County, Indiana defines Michiana as "counties that contribute at least 500 inbound commuting workers to St. Joseph County daily." Those counties...

  • Michigan
    Michigan
    Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

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  • Michigan Basin
    Michigan Basin
    The Michigan Basin is a geologic basin centered on the Lower Peninsula of the US state of Michigan. The feature is represented by a nearly circular pattern of geologic sedimentary strata in the area with a nearly uniform structural dip toward the center of the peninsula.The basin is centered in...

  • Michigan Court of Appeals
    Michigan Court of Appeals
    The Michigan Court of Appeals is the intermediate-level appellate court of the state of Michigan. It was created by the Michigan Constitution of 1963, and commenced operations in 1965...

  • Michigan Democratic Party
    Michigan Democratic Party
    The Michigan Democratic Party is the state-level party of the United States Democratic Party in Michigan. It is based in Lansing. Mark Brewer is the current Party Chair.-Current officeholders:...

  • Michigander
    Michigander
    Michiganian and Michigander are demonyms for residents of the U.S. state of Michigan. Less common alternatives include Michiganer, Michiganite, Michiganese, and Michigine. There is no "official" term. While previous governors Jennifer Granholm, John Engler, and Jim Blanchard used Michiganian,...

  • Michigan Heritage Route
    Michigan Heritage Route
    Michigan Heritage Route is a designation for roads in Michigan. The designation was created by the state legislature in 1993.The program emphasizes cooperation among local residents, government officials, landowners and interested groups to preserve unique scenic, historic or recreational...

  • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
    Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
    The Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association is an athletic conference that competes in the NCAA's Division III. The nine teams in the conference are all located in the states of Michigan and Indiana. The Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association was established on March 24, 1888, making...

  • Michigan Islands Wilderness Area
    Michigan Islands Wilderness Area
    Michigan Islands Wilderness Area, a relatively small wilderness area of 12.5 acres , consists of Pismire Island, Scarecrow Island, and Shoe Island within the Michigan Islands National Wildlife Refuge. These three islands, which constitute part of the group of islands that make up the larger...

  • Michigan Islands National Wildlife Refuge
    Michigan Islands National Wildlife Refuge
    The Michigan Islands National Wildlife Refuge is a designation for eight Michigan islands in the North American Great Lakes. Owned by the United States federal government, they were set aside for ecosystem protection purposes by President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1943.Charity, Little Charity,...

  • Michigan left
    Michigan left
    A Michigan left is an at-grade intersection design which replaces each left turn with a permutation of a U-turn and a right turn. The design was given the name due to its frequent use along Michigan roads and highways since the late 1960s. In other contexts, the intersection is called a median...

  • Michigan maps
  • Michigan Mountain Biking Association
  • Michigan Republican Party
    Michigan Republican Party
    The Michigan Republican Party is the state affiliate of the national Republican Party in Michigan. It is sometimes referred to as MIGOP, which simply means Michigan Grand Old Party....

  • Michigan State Capitol
    Michigan State Capitol
    The Michigan State Capitol is the building housing the legislative and executive branches of the government of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located in the state capital of Lansing in Ingham County...

  • Michigan State Police
    Michigan State Police
    The Michigan State Police is the state police agency for the state of Michigan. The MSP is a full service law enforcement agency with its sworn members having full police powers statewide....

  • Michigan State University
    Michigan State University
    Michigan State University is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Act.MSU pioneered the studies of packaging,...

  • Michigan Sugar Company
    Michigan Sugar Company
    Michigan Sugar Company is an agricultural cooperative, based in Bay City, Michigan, that specializes in the processing of beet sugar. Founded in 1906, Michigan Sugar sells beet sugar under the brand names Big Chief and Pioneer....

  • Michigan Supreme Court
    Michigan Supreme Court
    The Michigan Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is known as Michigan's "court of last resort" and consists of seven justices who are elected to eight-year terms. Candidates are nominated by political parties and are elected on a nonpartisan ballot...

  • Michigan Technological University
    Michigan Technological University
    Michigan Technological University is a public research university located in Houghton, Michigan, United States. Its main campus sits on on a bluff overlooking Portage Lake...

  • Michigan Territory
    Michigan Territory
    The Territory of Michigan was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from June 30, 1805, until January 26, 1837, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Michigan...

  • Michigan wine
    Michigan wine
    Michigan wine refers to any wine that is made in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of 2007, there were under wine-grape cultivation and 64 commercial wineries in Michigan, producing 425,000 cases of wine . According to another count there were 112 operating wineries in Michigan in 2007.Wine and...

  • The Mining Journal
    The Mining Journal
    The Mining Journal is the predominant daily newspaper of Marquette, Michigan and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.Like most market-dominant daily papers, the MJ is a seven-day morning paper. The Mining Journal is distributed over a wide area, in part because Marquette is the largest city for a...

  • Monuments and memorials in Michigan
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  • Mountains of Michigan
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  • Museums in Michigan
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  • Music of Michigan
    Music of Michigan
    The music of Michigan is composed of many different types. The city of Detroit has been one of the most musically influential and innovative cities for the past 50 years, whether in Michigan or anywhere else in the United States. Impressively, for 48 straight years a greater Michigan area artist...
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  • National Forests of Michigan
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  • Natural history of Michigan
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  • Nature centers in Michigan
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  • Nestlé
    Nestlé
    Nestlé S.A. is the world's largest food and nutrition company. Founded and headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland, Nestlé originated in a 1905 merger of the Anglo-Swiss Milk Company, established in 1867 by brothers George Page and Charles Page, and Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé, founded in 1866 by Henri...

  • Newspapers published in Michigan
  • Non-profit organizations based in Michigan
  • Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness
    Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness
    The Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness is a listed wilderness area within the Manistee National Forest. It is located north of Ludington, Michigan, and is best known for its 4 miles of undeveloped Lake Michigan shoreline.-Geology:...

  • Northern Michigan
    Northern Michigan
    Northern Michigan, also known as Northern Lower Michigan , is a region of the U.S. state of Michigan...

  • Northland Center (Michigan)
    Northland Center (Michigan)
    Northland Center is a shopping mall located at the intersection of Northwestern Highway and Greenfield Road in Southfield, an inner-ring suburb of Detroit, Michigan, United States. Construction began in 1952 and the mall opened on March 22, 1954...

  • Northwest Territory
    Northwest Territory
    The Territory Northwest of the River Ohio, more commonly known as the Northwest Territory, was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 13, 1787, until March 1, 1803, when the southeastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Ohio...

  • Northern Michigan University
    Northern Michigan University
    Northern Michigan University is a four-year college public university established in 1899 located in Marquette, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. With a population of nearly 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students, Northern Michigan University is the Upper Peninsula's largest...


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  • Ottawa National Forest
    Ottawa National Forest
    The Ottawa National Forest is a 1.0 million acre national forest in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. It includes much of Gogebic and Ontonagon counties, as well as slices of Iron, Houghton, Baraga, and Marquette counties. The forest is under the jurisdiction of the U.S...

  • Outdoor sculptures in Michigan
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  • The Palace of Auburn Hills
    The Palace of Auburn Hills
    The Palace of Auburn Hills, often referred to simply as The Palace, is a sports and entertainment venue in Auburn Hills, Michigan, a suburb on the northern outskirts of Detroit, Michigan, United States. Opened in 1988, it is the home of the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association...

  • People from Michigan
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  • Pere Marquette Railway
    Pere Marquette Railway
    The Pere Marquette Railway was a railroad that operated in the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada. The railroad had trackage in the states of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and the Canadian province of Ontario. Its primary connections included Buffalo; Toledo; and Chicago.The company was...

  • Pewabic Pottery
    Pewabic Pottery
    Pewabic Pottery is a studio and school located in Detroit, Michigan and founded in 1903. The studio is known for its iridescent glazes, some of which grace notable buildings such as the Shedd Aquarium and Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Pewabic Pottery is on display...

  • Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
    Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
    Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore is a U.S. National Lakeshore on the shore of Lake Superior in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States. It extends for 42 miles along the shore and covers...

  • Pioneer Sugar
    Michigan Sugar Company
    Michigan Sugar Company is an agricultural cooperative, based in Bay City, Michigan, that specializes in the processing of beet sugar. Founded in 1906, Michigan Sugar sells beet sugar under the brand names Big Chief and Pioneer....

  • Pioneer Surgical Technology
    Pioneer Surgical Technology
    Pioneer Surgical Technology, based in Marquette, Michigan, is Michigan's largest private medical technology company. The company was founded in 1992 by Matthew Songer and its first major product was the Songer Cable, used is spine surgeries...

  • Orlando Poe
    Orlando Poe
    Orlando Metcalfe Poe was an United States Army officer and engineer in the American Civil War. After helping General William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea, he was responsible for much of the early lighthouse construction on the Great Lakes.-Early life:Poe was born in Navarre, Ohio...

  • Politics of Michigan
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  • Potter Park Zoological Gardens
    Potter Park Zoological Gardens
    The Potter Park Zoo is a zoo located in Lansing, Michigan, within Lansing's Potter Park. Potter Park Zoo is the oldest public zoo in Michigan and is currently home to over 160 species of animals. The zoo is owned by the City of Lansing, and operated by Ingham County...

  • Protected areas of Michigan
    Protected areas of Michigan
    The protected areas of Michigan come in an array of different types and levels of protection. Michigan has five units of the National Park Service system. There are 14 federal wilderness areas; the majority of these are also tribal-designated wildernesses. It has one of the largest state forest...
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  • Railroad museums in Michigan
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  • Regions of Michigan
  • Religion in Michigan
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  • St. Clair River
    St. Clair River
    The St. Clair River is a river in central North America which drains Lake Huron into Lake St Clair, forming part of the international boundary between the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of Michigan...

  • St. Mary's River
    St. Marys River (Michigan-Ontario)
    The St. Marys River , sometimes written as the St. Mary's River, drains Lake Superior, starting at the end of Whitefish Bay and flowing 74.5 miles southeast into Lake Huron, with a fall of ....

  • Henry Schoolcraft
    Henry Schoolcraft
    Henry Rowe Schoolcraft was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his 1832 discovery of the source of the Mississippi River. He married Jane Johnston, whose parents were Ojibwe and Scots-Irish...

  • Saginaw Trail
    Saginaw trail
    Saginaw Trail is the collective name for a set of connected roads in Southeastern Michigan that runs from Detroit to Saginaw through Pontiac and Flint. It was originally a tribal foot trail. On December 7, 1818 the Michigan Territorial government authorized the building of a road from Detroit to...

  • Scouting in Michigan
    Scouting in Michigan
    Scouting in Michigan has a long history, from the 1910s to the present day, serving thousands of youth in programs that suit the environment in which they live.- Early history :...

  • Settlements in Michigan
    • Cities in Michigan
    • Villages in Michigan
    • Townships in Michigan
    • Census Designated Places in Michigan
    • Other unincorporated communities in Michigan
    • List of ghost towns in Michigan
  • Ski areas and resorts in Michigan
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  • Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
    Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
    Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is a United States National Lakeshore located along the northwest coast of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan in Leelanau County and Benzie County....

  • Southern Michigan
    Southern Michigan
    Southern Michigan is a loosely defined geographic area of the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. Southern Michigan may be referred to as a sub-region or component area to the larger geographic regions of Central Michigan, West Michigan, and Southeast Michigan.Southern Michigan is a...

  • Southwest Michigan Devil Rays
    Southwest Michigan Devil Rays
    The Southwest Michigan Devil Rays were an affiliate of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the Midwest League in 2005 and 2006. The club began play in 1995 and was previously known as the Michigan Battle Cats and the Battle Creek Yankees. They played their home games at C.O. Brown Stadium in Battle...

  • Sports in Michigan
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  • State of Michigan  website
    • Government of the State of Michigan
      Government of Michigan
      Michigan is governed as a republic, with three branches of government: the executive branch consisting of the Governor of Michigan and the other independently elected constitutional officers; the legislative branch consisting of the House of Representatives and Senate; and the judicial branch...
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  • Stratton, Mary Chase Perry
    Mary Chase Perry Stratton
    Mary Chase Perry Stratton was an American ceramic artist. She was a co-founder, along with Horace James Caulkins, of Pewabic Pottery, a form of ceramic art used to make architectural tiles.-Early years:...

  • Structures in Michigan
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  • Symbols of the State of Michigan
    • Michigan state bird: American Robin
      American Robin
      The American Robin or North American Robin is a migratory songbird of the thrush family. It is named after the European Robin because of its reddish-orange breast, though the two species are not closely related, with the European robin belonging to the flycatcher family...

       (Turdus migratorius)
    • Michigan state coat-of-arms: Coat-of-Arms of the State of Michigan
    • Michigan state fish: Brook Trout
      Brook trout
      The brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis, is a species of fish in the salmon family of order Salmoniformes. In many parts of its range, it is known as the speckled trout or squaretail. A potamodromous population in Lake Superior are known as coaster trout or, simply, as coasters...

       (Salvelinus fontinalis)
    • Michigan state flag: Flag of the State of Michigan
    • Michigan state flower: Apple blossom
      Apple
      The apple is the pomaceous fruit of the apple tree, species Malus domestica in the rose family . It is one of the most widely cultivated tree fruits, and the most widely known of the many members of genus Malus that are used by humans. Apple grow on small, deciduous trees that blossom in the spring...

       (Malus domestica)
    • Michigan state fossil: Mastodon
      Mastodon
      Mastodons were large tusked mammal species of the extinct genus Mammut which inhabited Asia, Africa, Europe, North America and Central America from the Oligocene through Pleistocene, 33.9 mya to 11,000 years ago. The American mastodon is the most recent and best known species of the group...

       (Mammut americanum)
    • Michigan state game animal: White-tailed Deer
      White-tailed Deer
      The white-tailed deer , also known as the Virginia deer or simply as the whitetail, is a medium-sized deer native to the United States , Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America as far south as Peru...

       (Odocoileus virginianus)
    • Michigan state gem: Isle Royale greenstone or Chlorastrolite
      Chlorastrolite
      Chlorastrolite also known as Michigan Greenstone, is a green or bluish green stone. Chlorastrolite has finely radiated or stellate masses that have a "turtleback" pattern. The stellate masses tend to be chatoyant, meaning they have a changeable luster. This chatoyancy can be subtranslucent to...

    • Michigan state mammal: Wolverine
      Wolverine
      The wolverine, pronounced , Gulo gulo , also referred to as glutton, carcajou, skunk bear, or quickhatch, is the largest land-dwelling species of the family Mustelidae . It is a stocky and muscular carnivore, more closely resembling a small bear than other mustelids...

       (Gulo gulo luscus) (unofficial)
    • Michigan state motto: Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam circumspice (Latin for If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you) (unofficial)
    • Michigan state nicknames: Wolverine State and Great Lakes State (unofficial)
    • Michigan state reptile: Western Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta bellii)
    • Michigan state seal: Great Seal of the State of Michigan
    • Michigan state soil: Kalkaska Sand
      Kalkaska Sand
      Kalkaska sand is the official soil of the U.S. state of Michigan.Kalkaska sand was identified in 1927 and named after Kalkaska County located in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. This soil is a multi-layer soil composed of humus, light sand, dark sand, and yellowish sand. It is classified...

    • Michigan state song: My Michigan
      My Michigan
      My Michigan is the title of the State of Michigan's only official state anthem. It was written by Giles Kavanagh and H. O'Reilly Clint in 1933. It was published by Clint's own music publishing company at Detroit...

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    • Michigan state stone: Petoskey stone
      Petoskey stone
      A Petoskey stone is a rock and a fossil, often pebble-shaped, that is composed of a fossilized coral, Hexagonaria percarinata. The stones were formed as a result of glaciation, in which sheets of ice plucked stones from the bedrock, grinding off their rough edges and depositing them in Michigan's...

    • Michigan state tree: Eastern White Pine
      Eastern White Pine
      Pinus strobus, commonly known as the eastern white pine, is a large pine native to eastern North America, occurring from Newfoundland west to Minnesota and southeastern Manitoba, and south along the Appalachian Mountains to the northern edge of Georgia.It is occasionally known as simply white pine,...

       (Pinus strobus)
    • Michigan state wildflower: Dwarf Lake Iris
      Dwarf Lake Iris
      The Dwarf Lake Iris is a beardless rhizomatous iris native to the northern shores of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron....

       (Iris lacustris)
    • United States quarter dollar - Michigan 2004

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  • Telecommunications in Michigan
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  • The Thumb
    The Thumb
    The Thumb is a region and a peninsula of Michigan, so named because the Lower Peninsula is shaped like a mitten; thus the Thumb is the area that looks like the thumb of the mitten. The Thumb is generally considered to be in the Mid-Michigan area of the state, located east of Flint/Tri-Cities...

  • Theatres in Michigan
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  • Tiger Stadium
  • Toledo Strip
  • Toledo War
    Toledo War
    The Toledo War , also known as the Michigan-Ohio War, was the almost entirely bloodless boundary dispute between the U.S. state of Ohio and the adjoining territory of Michigan....

  • Tourism in Michigan  website
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  • Transportation in Michigan
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  • Traverse City Record-Eagle
    Traverse City Record-Eagle
    The Traverse City Record-Eagle is a daily morning newspaper based in Traverse City, Michigan. It calls itself "Northern Michigan's Newspaper".The newspaper formerly was owned by Dow Jones & Company, also publishers of the Wall Street Journal...


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  • United States of America
    • States of the United States of America
      U.S. state
      A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...

    • United States census statistical areas of Michigan
      Michigan census statistical areas
      The United States Census Bureau has defined 5 Combined Statistical Areas , 15 Metropolitan Statistical Areas , and 18 Micropolitan Statistical Areas in the State of Michigan. The following table describes these areas with the following information:*The name of the Combined Statistical Area , if...

    • United States congressional delegations from Michigan
      United States Congressional Delegations from Michigan
      This is a complete listing of all historical congressional delegations from Michigan to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.-United States Senate:-Delegates from Michigan Territory:-Members from Michigan:-Notes:...

    • United States congressional districts in Michigan
      Michigan's congressional districts
      Michigan currently has 15 congressional districts. It used to have as many as 19. Before statehood, Michigan Territory was represented by a non-voting delegate. The delegation to the 112th Congress is as follows:...

    • United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
      United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
      The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* Eastern District of Kentucky* Western District of Kentucky...

    • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
      United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
      The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan is the Federal district court with jurisdiction over of the eastern portion of the state of Michigan. The Court is based in Detroit, with courthouses also located in Ann Arbor, Bay City, Flint, and Port Huron...

    • United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan
      United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan
      The United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan is the Federal district court with jurisdiction over of the western portion of the state of Michigan, including the entire Upper Peninsula....

    • United States Representatives from Michigan
    • United States Senators from Michigan
  • University of Michigan
    University of Michigan
    The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

  • Upper Midwest
    Upper Midwest
    The Upper Midwest is a region in the northern portion of the U.S. Census Bureau's Midwestern United States. It is largely a sub-region of the midwest. Although there are no uniformly agreed-upon boundaries, the region is most commonly used to refer to the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and...

  • Upper Peninsula of Michigan
    Upper Peninsula of Michigan
    The Upper Peninsula of Michigan is the northern of the two major land masses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan. It is commonly referred to as the Upper Peninsula, the U.P., or Upper Michigan. It is also known as the land "above the Bridge" linking the two peninsulas. The peninsula is bounded...

  • US-MI – ISO 3166-2:US
    ISO 3166-2:US
    ISO 3166-2:US is the entry for the United States in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.Currently for the United States, ISO...

     region code for the State of Michigan

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  • Water parks in Michigan
  • Waterfalls of Michigan
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  • West Michigan Whitecaps
    West Michigan Whitecaps
    The West Michigan Whitecaps are a Class A minor league baseball team, affiliated with the Detroit Tigers, that plays in the Midwest League. Their home games are played in Comstock Park, Michigan, a suburb of Grand Rapids.-Franchise history:...

  • Western Michigan
    Western Michigan
    West Michigan and Western Michigan are terms for an arbitrarily selected region in the U.S. state of Michigan in its Lower Peninsula. There is no official definition for what constitutes "West Michigan." The area of West Michigan may also include parts Southern Michigan.-Definition:In general,...

  • Wikimedia
    • Wikimedia Commons:Category:Michigan
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      • Wikinews:Portal:Michigan
    • Wikipedia Category:Michigan
      • Wikipedia Portal:Michigan
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Michigan
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        • Wikipedia:WikiProject Michigan/Members
  • Wisconsin v. Michigan
    Wisconsin v. Michigan
    Two Supreme Court cases, Wisconsin v. Michigan, 295 U.S. 455 and Wisconsin v. Michigan, 297 U.S. 547 , settled a border dispute between Wisconsin and Michigan. A third, Michigan v. Wisconsin, ...-Lake Superior to Lac Vieux Desert:...


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  • Zoos in Michigan
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