Michigan
Michigan covers 96,810 square miles and has a population of 9,938,444 people.
Michigan's capital is
Lansing
which has a population of 119,128. Other important cities are
Detroit
(pop. 951,270),
Grand
Rapids (pop. 197,800), Warren (pop. 138,247),
Flint (pop.
124,943),
Sterling Heights (pop. 124,471),
Ann Arbor
(pop. 114,024),
Livonia
(pop. 100,545),
Dearborn
(pop. 97,775) and Westland (pop. 86,602).
Michigan was admitted to the Union on January 26, 1837 as the 26th state. The
state flower is the "Apple Blossom" and its' nicknames are the "Wolverine State"
and the "Great Lakes State". Michigan is bordered by
Illinois,
Indiana,
Minnesota (water border),
Ohio and
Wisconsin.
Michigan's economy is broken into two categories; agriculture and industry.
Dairy products, apples,
blueberries, cattle, vegetables, hogs, corn, nursery stock and soybeans
provide for the agricultural side. While
Motor vehicles and parts, machinery,
fabricated metal products, food processing, chemical products, mining and
tourism provide
for the industrial side.