The following outline provides an overview of and topical guide to the U.S. state of Michigan:
The location of the state of Michigan in the United States of America
Michigan is located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America, comprising two peninsulas.
An enlargeable map of the state of Michigan
Geography of Michigan
- Michigan is: a U.S. state, a federal state of the United States of America
- Population: 10,077,331 (2020), 10th in the U.S.[2]
- Size: 96,716 sq miles (250,493 km2), 11th in the U.S., width: 386 miles (621 km), length: 456 miles (734 km), 41.5% water
Location of Michigan
Location: 41° 41' N to 48° 18' N latitude, 82° 7' W to 90° 25' W longitude
- Regions in which Michigan is located:
- Located next to:
- Adjacent states
- Adjacent Canadian province
- Time zones:
- Eastern (UTC-5/-4), 79 of 83 counties
- Central (UTC−6/-5), 4 western U.P. counties
Natural geographic features of Michigan
Regions of Michigan
- United States
- ZIP code range: 48001-49971 (1752 zip codes)[4]
- Area codes: 231, 248, 269, 313, 517, 586, 616, 734, 810, 906, and 989
Government of Michigan
Law enforcement in Michigan
Historic locations in Michigan
Historical libraries, societies and museums in Michigan
History of Michigan, by period
- Timeline of Michigan history
- Indigenous peoples
- French colony of Canada, 1668–1763
- French colony of la Louisiane, 1699–1764
- French and Indian War, 1754–1763
- British (though predominantly Francophone) Province of Quebec, 1763–1791
- American Revolutionary War, April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783
- Territory Northwest of the River Ohio, 1787–1803
- Territory of Indiana, 1800–1816
- Territory of Michigan, 1805–1837
- State of Michigan becomes 26th State admitted to the United States of America on January 26, 1837
History of Michigan, by region
History of Michigan, by subject
History of Michigan, lists of people
History of Michigan, people
- People from Michigan
- Cass, Lewis
- Chrysler, Walter
- Custer, George Armstrong (raised in Monroe)
- Edison, Thomas (raised in Port Huron)
- Ford, Gerald (38th President of the United States)
- Ford, Henry
- Hoffa, James R. "Jimmy"
- Malcolm X (raised in Lansing)
- Marquette, Jacques (a.k.a. Père Marquette)
- Parks, Rosa (lived in Detroit)
- Pontiac (Obwandiyag)
- Salk, Jonas (University of Michigan faculty member)
- Schoolcraft, Henry
- Seaborg, Glenn T. (1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
- Stewart, Potter (Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court)
- Ting, Samuel C. C. (1976 Nobel Prize in Physics)
- Reuther, Walter
- Weller, Thomas Huckle (1954 Nobel Prize in Medicine)
- Woodcock, Leonard
History publications about Michigan
Barry Popik, Smoky City, barrypopik.com website, March 27, 2005