Michigan Information
Michigan is a Midwestern state of the United States of America. It was named
after Lake Michigan, whose name is a French adaptation of the Ojibwe term mishigama, meaning "large water" or "large lake".
Michigan is the eighth most populous state in the United States. It has the
longest freshwater shoreline of any political subdivision in the world, being bounded by four of the five Great Lakes, plus Lake Saint Clair.[5] In 2005, Michigan ranked third for the number of registered recreational boats,
behind California and Florida.Michigan has 64,980 inland lakes.
A person in the state is never more than six miles (10 km) from a
natural water source,[citation needed] or more than 87.2 miles (140.3 km)
from the Great Lakes coastline.
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