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Fast Facts. Nickname: The Wolverine State. Statehood: 1837; 26th state. Population (as of July 2016): 9,928,300. Capital: Lansing. Biggest City: Detroit. Abbreviation: MI. State bird: American...
Abbreviation: MI. Joined the USA: January 26th, 1837 (26th State) Located: Midwestern United States. Capital City: Lansing, MI. Most Populated City: Detroit, MI. 35 Michigan Facts for Kids. Michigan is a state in the United States of America. Michigan became a U.S. State on Thursday, January 26th, 1837.
Introduction. See table: Michigan profile. The U.S. state of Michigan is believed to have gotten its name from an Ojibwe word meaning “large lake.” Michigan is the only state to border on four of the five Great Lakes. Sometimes called the Great Lakes State, Michigan has more coastline than any state other than Alaska. The capital is Lansing.
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When the first European explorers arrived, the most populous tribes were the Algonquian peoples, which include the Anishinaabe groups of Ojibwe, Odaawaa/Odawa (Ottawa), and the Boodewaadamii/Bodéwadmi (Potawatomi). The three nations coexisted peacefully as part of a loose confederation called the Council of Three Fires. The Ojibwe, whose numbers ar...
State government
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. The Michigan Constitution allows for the direct participation of the electorate by statutory initiative and referendum, recall, and constitutional initiative and referral (Article II, § 9, defined as "t...
Law
Michigan has had four constitutions, the first of which was ratified on October5 and 6, 1835. There were also constitutions from 1850 and 1908, in addition to the current constitution from 1963. The current document has a preamble, 11 articles, and one section consisting of a schedule and temporary provisions. Michigan, like every U.S. state except Louisiana, has a common lawlegal system.
Politics
Having been a Democratic-leaning state at the presidential level since the 1990s, Michigan has evolved into a swing state after Donald Trump won the state in 2016. Governors since the 1970s have alternated between the Democrats and Republicans, and statewide offices including attorney general, secretary of state, and senatorhave been held by members of both parties in varying proportion. Additionally, from 1994 until 2022, the governor-elect had always come from the party opposite the preside...
Michigan consists of two peninsulas separated by the Straits of Mackinac. The 45th parallel north runs through the state, marked by highway signs and the Polar-Equator Trail—along a line including Mission Point Light near Traverse City, the towns of Gaylord and Alpena in the Lower Peninsula and Menominee in the Upper Peninsula. With the exception o...
Population
The United States Census Bureau recorded the population of Michigan at 10,077,331 at the 2020 United States census, an increase of 2.03% from 9,883,635 recorded at the 2010 United States census. The center of population of Michigan is in Shiawassee County, in the southeastern corner of the civil township of Bennington, which is northwest of the village of Morrice. As of the 2010 American Community Survey for the U.S. census, the state had a foreign-born population of 592,212, or 6.0% of the t...
Birth data
As of 2011[update], 34.3% of Michigan's children under the age of one belonged to racial or ethnic minority groups, meaning they had at least one parent who was not non-Hispanic white. Note: Percentages in the table can exceed 100% as Hispanics are counted both by their ethnicity and by their race. 1. Since 2016, data for births of White Hispanic origin are not collected, but included in one Hispanicgroup; persons of Hispanic origin may be of any race.
Languages
As of 2010[update], 91.11% (8,507,947) of Michigan residents age five and older spoke only English at home, while 2.93% (273,981) spoke Spanish, 1.04% (97,559) Arabic, 0.44% (41,189) German, 0.36% (33,648) Chinese (which includes Mandarin), 0.31% (28,891) French, 0.29% (27,019) Polish, and Syriac languages (such as Modern Aramaic and Northeastern Neo-Aramaic) was spoken as a main languageby 0.25% (23,420) of the population over the age of five. In total, 8.89% (830,281) of Michigan's populati...
In 2017, 3,859,949 people in Michigan were employed at 222,553 establishments, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis estimated Michigan's Q3 2022 gross state product to be $626.680 billion, ranking 14th out of the 50 states. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as of December 2022[update], the state's sea...
Energy
In 2020, Michigan consumed 113,740-gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electrical energy and produced 116,700-gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electrical energy. Coal power is Michigan's leading source of electricity, producing roughly half its supply or 53,100-gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electrical energy (12.6 GW total capacity) in 2020. Although Michigan has no active coal mines, coal is easily moved from other states by train and across the Great Lakes by lake freighters. The lower price of natural gas is leading...
Other economically significant cities include: 1. Battle Creek, known as "Cereal City", is the headquarters of Kellogg's. 2. Benton Harbor–St. Joseph is the headquarters of Whirlpool Corporationand LECO Corporation. 3. East Lansing is the home of Michigan State University. 4. Holland is the home of the Tulip Time Festival, the largest tulip festiva...
Michigan's education system serves 1.6 million K-12 students in public schools. More than 124,000 students attend private schools and an uncounted number are homeschooled under certain legal requirements. The public school system had a $14.5 billion budget in 2008–09. From 2009 to 2019, over 200 private schools in Michigan closed, partly due to com...
Sports
Michigan's major-league sports teams include: Detroit Tigers baseball team, Detroit Lions football team, Detroit Red Wings ice hockey team, and the Detroit Pistons men's basketball team. All of Michigan's major league teams play in the Metro Detroit area. The state also has a professional second-tier (USL Championship) soccer team in Detroit City FC, which plays its home games at Keyworth Stadium in Hamtramack, Michigan. The Pistons played at Detroit's Cobo Arena until 1978 and at the Pontiac...
Michigan is traditionally known as "The Wolverine State", and the University of Michigan uses the wolverine as its mascot. The association is well and long established: for example, many Detroiters volunteered to fight during the American Civil War and George Armstrong Custer, who led the Michigan Brigade, called them the "Wolverines". The origins ...
9. Feb. 2024 · 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.
Michigan is a state in the upper Midwestern region of the United States. Michigan was admitted to the Union on January 26, 1837, making it the 26th official state to join the ranks. With a population of over 10 million (as of 2020), Michigan is the tenth most populated state in America.
Kids learn facts and geography about the state of Michigan including symbols, flag, capital, bodies of water, industry, borders, population, fun facts, GDP, famous people, and major cities.
