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Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern areas of the United States. Its name begins from the Ojibwe word mishigamaa, signifying "enormous water" or "huge lake". With a populace of just shy of 10 million, Michigan is the tenth generally crowded of the 50 United States, with the eleventh most broad all out zone, and is the biggest state by complete zone east of the Mississippi River. Its capital is Lansing, and its biggest city is Detroit. Metro Detroit is among the country's generally crowded and biggest metropolitan economies. Michigan is the main state to comprise of two promontories. The Lower Peninsula is frequently noted as being formed like a glove. The Upper Peninsula is isolated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac, a channel that joins Lake Huron to Lake Michigan. The Mackinac Bridge interfaces the landmasses. The state has the longest freshwater coastline of any political subdivision on the planet, being limited by four of the five Great Lakes, in addition to Lake Saint Clair. Michigan additionally has 64,980 inland lakes and lakes. The territory was first involved by a progression of Native American clans more than a great many years. Occupied by Natives, Métis, and French travelers in the seventeenth century, it was asserted as a feature of New France province. After France's destruction in the French and Indian War in 1762, the area went under British standard. England surrendered this domain to the recently autonomous United States after Britain's thrashing in the American Revolutionary War. The region was a piece of the bigger Northwest Territory until 1800, when western Michigan turned out to be a piece of the Indiana Territory. Michigan Territory was shaped in 1805, yet a portion of the northern outskirt with Canada was not settled upon until after the War of 1812. Michigan was conceded into the Union in 1837 as the 26th express, a free one. It before long turned into a significant focal point of industry and exchange the Great Lakes district and a well known foreigner goal in the late nineteenth and mid twentieth hundreds of years. In spite of the fact that Michigan built up a different economy, it is generally known as the focal point of the U.S. car industry, which created as a significant financial power in the mid twentieth century. It is home to the nation's three significant vehicle organizations. While scantily populated, the Upper Peninsula is significant for the travel industry on account of its bounty of characteristic assets, while the Lower Peninsula is a focal point of assembling, ranger service, agribusiness, administrations, and cutting edge industry.