Who are the state senators for Michigan?

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States.

Michigan drives its name from a gallicized variant of the original Ojibwe word ᒥᓯᑲᒥ, meaning ‘large water’ or ‘large lake’.

With a population of nearly 10.1 million and a total area of nearly 97,000 sq mi (250,000 km2), Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the largest by area east of the Mississippi River.

Michigan’s capital is Lansing, and its largest city is Detroit. Metro Detroit is among the nation’s most populous and largest metropolitan economies.

Michigan is the only state to consist of two peninsulas.

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The Lower Peninsula is shaped like a mitten while the Upper Peninsula (often called “the U.P.”) is separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac, a five-mile (8 km) channel that joins Lake Huron to Lake Michigan.

The Mackinac Bridge connects the peninsulas.

Michigan has the longest freshwater coastline of any political subdivision in the world, being bordered by four of the five Great Lakes, plus Lake St. Clair.

Michigan also has 64,980 inland lakes and ponds. Michigan has the second-most water of any state, behind only Alaska.