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Michigan map, including territorial waters. Michigan consists of two peninsulas surrounded primarily by four of the Great Lakes and a variety of nearby islands. The Upper Peninsula is bounded on the southwest by Wisconsin, and the Lower Peninsula is bounded on the south by Indiana and Ohio.
The Upper Midwest is a northern subregion of the U.S. Census Bureau's Midwestern United States.Although the exact boundaries are not uniformly agreed upon, the region is usually defined to include the states of Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin; some definitions include North Dakota, South Dakota, and parts of Nebraska and Illinois.
This is a result of both proximity and the broadcast and print media of the area. The four counties that border Wisconsin are also in the Central Time Zone, unlike the rest of Michigan, which is on Eastern time. In some cases, commercial cartographers draw incorrect maps that inadvertently annex the Upper Peninsula into Wisconsin. [57]
Michigan (/ ˈ m ɪ ʃ ɪ ɡ ən / ⓘ MISH-ig-ən) is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States.It borders Wisconsin to the southwest in the Upper Peninsula, and Indiana and Ohio to the south in the Lower Peninsula; it is also connected by Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, and Erie to Minnesota and Illinois, and the Canadian province of Ontario.
They traveled through Michigan's upper peninsula to the northern tip of Lake Michigan. On canoes, they crossed the massive lake and landed at present-day Green Bay, Wisconsin. They entered the Mississippi River on 17 June 1673. [35] Marquette and Jolliet were the first to map the northern portion of the Mississippi River.
A map by the American Automobile Association does show the highway continuing east through Faithorn and Hermansville in Michigan to end at US 2. [25] The Wisconsin Highway Commission previously indicated an unnumbered state highway on their 1925 state map that connected Pembine with the Menominee River near Hermansville. [21]
When Illinois was admitted to the union in 1818, Wisconsin became part of the Territory of Michigan and divided into two counties: Brown County in the northeast along Lake Michigan and Crawford County in the southwest along the Mississippi River. [1] Iowa County was formed in 1829 from the Crawford County land south of the Wisconsin River. [1]
Wisconsin is bordered by Lake Superior in the north and Lake Michigan in the east. [36] The state has over 15,000 named lakes, totaling about 1 million acres (4,000 km 2). Within Wisconsin, Lakes Superior and Michigan total 6.4 million acres (26,000 km 2). [37] Along the two great lakes, Wisconsin has over 500 miles (800 km) of shoreline. [38]