constituent state of the United States of America. Although its 58,527 square miles (151,586 square kilometres) rank the state only 23rd in size nationally, the inclusion of Great Lakes waters over which it has jurisdiction raises the figure to 97,102...

State (pop., 2000: 9,938,444), midwestern U.S. Surrounded almost entirely by the Great Lakes, it is divided into two large land segments: the Upper and Lower peninsulas. The Lower Peninsula is bordered to the south by Indiana and Ohio; the Upper...

(If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about...