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Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...</div><br></span> located in the north-central United States and is part of the <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("5386",this,"midwestern_united_states.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("5386")' href="/topics/Midwestern_United_States">Midwest</a><span class="hp" id="m5386"><div class="hpHeader">Midwestern United States</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i5386"></div>The Midwestern United States is one of the four U.S. geographic regions defined by the United States Census Bureau, providing an official definition of the American Midwest....</div><br></span>. It is bordered by <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("56014",this,"minnesota.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("56014")' href="/topics/Minnesota">Minnesota</a><span class="hp" id="m56014"><div class="hpHeader">Minnesota</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i56014"></div>Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...</div><br></span> to the west, <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("31957",this,"iowa.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("31957")' href="/topics/Iowa">Iowa</a><span class="hp" id="m31957"><div class="hpHeader">Iowa</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i31957"></div>Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New...</div><br></span> to the southwest, <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("7900",this,"illinois.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("7900")' href="/topics/Illinois">Illinois</a><span class="hp" id="m7900"><div class="hpHeader">Illinois</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i7900"></div>Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...</div><br></span> to the south, <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("83841",this,"lake_michigan.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("83841")' href="/topics/Lake_Michigan">Lake Michigan</a><span class="hp" id="m83841"><div class="hpHeader">Lake Michigan</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i83841"></div>Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America and the only one located entirely within the United States. It is the second largest of the Great Lakes by volume and the third largest by surface area, after Lake Superior and Lake Huron...</div><br></span> to the east, <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("59784",this,"upper_peninsula_of_michigan.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("59784")' href="/topics/Upper_Peninsula_of_Michigan">Michigan</a><span class="hp" id="m59784"><div class="hpHeader">Upper Peninsula of Michigan</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i59784"></div>The Upper Peninsula of Michigan is the northern of the two major land masses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan. It is commonly referred to as the Upper Peninsula, the U.P., or Upper Michigan. It is also known as the land "above the Bridge" linking the two peninsulas. The peninsula is bounded...</div><br></span> to the northeast, and <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("10413",this,"lake_superior.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("10413")' href="/topics/Lake_Superior">Lake Superior</a><span class="hp" id="m10413"><div class="hpHeader">Lake Superior</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i10413"></div>Lake Superior is the largest of the five traditionally-demarcated Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded to the north by the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of Minnesota, and to the south by the U.S. states of Wisconsin and Michigan. It is the largest freshwater lake in the...</div><br></span> to the north. Wisconsin's capital is <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("87612",this,"madison,_wisconsin.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("87612")' href="/topics/Madison,_Wisconsin">Madison</a><span class="hp" id="m87612"><div class="hpHeader">Madison, Wisconsin</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i87612"></div>Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County. It is also home to the University of Wisconsin鈥揗adison....</div><br></span>, and its largest city is Milwaukee. As of 2010, the state's <a href="/topics/List_of_counties_in_Wisconsin" class="greylink1">72</a> <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("40754",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("40754")' href="/topics/County_(United_States)">counties</a><span class="hp" id="m40754"><div class="hpHeader">County (United States)</div><div class="hpContent">In the United States, a county is a geographic subdivision of a state , usually assigned some governmental authority. The term "county" is used in 48 of the 50 states; Louisiana is divided into parishes and Alaska into boroughs. Parishes and boroughs are called "county-equivalents" by the U.S...</div><br></span> have a total of 5,686,986 residents.<br /> The word <i>Wisconsin</i> originates from the name given to the <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("91382",this,"wisconsin_river.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("91382")' href="/topics/Wisconsin_River">Wisconsin River</a><span class="hp" id="m91382"><div class="hpHeader">Wisconsin River</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i91382"></div>-External links:* * * , Wisconsin Historical Society* * * *...</div><br></span> by one of the <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("67325",this,"algonquian_languages.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("67325")' href="/topics/Algonquian_languages">Algonquian</a><span class="hp" id="m67325"><div class="hpHeader">Algonquian languages</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i67325"></div>The Algonquian languages also Algonkian) are a subfamily of Native American languages which includes most of the languages in the Algic language family. The name of the Algonquian language family is distinguished from the orthographically similar Algonquin dialect of the Ojibwe language, which is a...</div><br></span> speaking <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("68581",this,"indigenous_peoples_of_the_americas.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("68581")' href="/topics/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas">American Indian</a><span class="hp" id="m68581"><div class="hpHeader">Indigenous peoples of the Americas</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i68581"></div>The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...</div><br></span> groups living in the region at the time of <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("19210",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("19210")' href="/topics/European_colonization_of_the_Americas">European contact</a><span class="hp" id="m19210"><div class="hpHeader">European colonization of the Americas</div><div class="hpContent">The start of the European colonization of the Americas is typically dated to 1492. The first Europeans to reach the Americas were the Vikings during the 11th century, who established several colonies in Greenland and one short-lived settlement in present day Newfoundland...</div><br></span>. </div> </div> <div class="tp-section"> <div class="tp-header"> <div class="tp-header-icon"><img src="/images/icons/black_arrow.jpg" /></div> <div class="tp-header-headline">Discussions</div> </div> <div class="tp-content"> <div class="tp-post"> <div class="tp-post-icon"><img src="/images/icons/quote.gif" /></div> <div class="tp-post-headline"><a href="/discussionpost/Politics_in_Wisconsin_34196" class='bluelink2'>Politics in Wisconsin</a></div> </div> <div class="tp-post"> <div class="tp-post-icon"><img src="/images/icons/quote.gif" /></div> <div class="tp-post-headline"><a href="/discussionpost/Colonization_of_Wisconsin_34192" class='bluelink2'>Colonization of Wisconsin</a></div> </div> <div class="tp-post"> <div class="tp-post-icon"><img src="/images/icons/quote.gif" /></div> <div class="tp-post-headline"><a href="/discussionpost/Geography_34194" class='bluelink2'>Geography</a></div> </div> <div class="tp-post"> <div class="tp-post-icon"><img src="/images/icons/question_mark.gif" /></div> <div class="tp-post-headline"><a href="/discussionpost/What_are_some_tourist_attractions_in_Wisconsin_34198" class='bluelink2'>What are some tourist attractions in Wisconsin?</a></div> </div> <div class="more-button-container go-link"><div class="more-button"><a href="/discussion/Wisconsin">More</a></div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="footer"> <a href="http://www.silverdaleinteractive.com/">Silverdale Interactive</a> 漏 2024. 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