Michigan

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Michigan - 26th state of USA, it has been formed on January, 26th, 1837. Its area – almost 97 thousand sq. miles, the population – about the Europeans 10 million First settlement in staff territory it has been based in 1668 by father Jacque Marketom, the French Jesuit. In 1763 these territories have passed to Englishmen who kept them till 1796. The person. When Europeans on the staff earths have come there lived American Indian tribes Ottawa, Маями, Потавами, Гуроны. 

Michigan - a word of an American Indian origin, it means “Great Water”.

Symbol of Michigan - elks.

Michigan - one of the most beautiful states. Its territory consists of two peninsulas:

1. The top peninsula is not too occupied
2. Bottom - large cities are concentrated.

Michigan borders on four Great Lakes - lake Superior, Гуроном, Erie and Michigan. Except Great Lakes here is smaller 11000. The huge part of territory of staff is occupied with woods. In Michigan the biggest variety of breeds of trees in the USA.

For staff economy the mining operations have great value. Here the greatest stocks of copper in the USA are concentrated. There is also an iron ore, oil, gas.

Michigan -  paradise for fans of productive leisure, tourists, fishers, hunters, swimmers, boatmen and яхтсменов.

Staff is well-known for the professional sports commands: Detroit Tigers in baseball, Detroit Pistons in basketball, Detroit Lions in the American football, Detroit Red Wings in hockey.

Michigan also is famous for motor industry: it wins first place in the USA on manufacture of cars. Three largest automobile companies General Motors, Ford and Chrysler have an apartment staff in Detroit. Detroit sometimes even name Motor City. The major industrial enterprises of Michigan are in the largest cities of staff: Dearborn, Flint, Pontiac and Lansing (it is capital of Michigan).

Sights of Michigan

Henry Ford's museum in Дирбоне;

The reconstructed village Grinfild close Дирбона;

The Michigan space centre in Jackson;

Falls Тахкваменон (falls Гайавата);

Windmill Дезвана and Festival of tulips in settlement Holland;

Sou sluices on a ship canal at falls Sent-Meri;

Automobile factories in Дирбоне, Detroit, Flint, Лаксинге and Pontiac;

Island Makinak; Rock paintings and dunes of the Sleeping Bear;

Coast of Great Lakes.