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Lansing (/ ˈ l æ n s ɪ ŋ /) is the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan and the most populous city in Ingham County.It is mostly in the county, although portions of the city extend west into Eaton County and north into Clinton County.
In 1805, the U.S. Congress created the Michigan Territory, with Detroit as its territorial capital. [4] Michigan first applied for statehood as early as 1832, though it was rebuffed due to a dispute with Ohio over the Toledo Strip , a 468-square mile (1,210 km 2 ) area that included the important port city of Toledo .
Michigan (/ ˈ m ɪ ʃ ɪ ɡ ən / ⓘ MISH-ig-ən) is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwestern United States.It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, Indiana and Illinois to the southwest, Ohio to the southeast, and the Canadian province of Ontario to the east, northeast and north.
Back to Detroit, I should say — Detroit was Michigan's first territorial capital, for obvious reasons, then the first state capital, before relocating to Lansing in 1847 for what, ...
With a population of 10.14 million and an area of 96,716 sq mi (250,490 km 2), Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the largest by total area east of the Mississippi River. Its capital is Lansing, and its largest city is Detroit.
Central Michigan has several cities of regional and geographic importance: Lansing, is the capital of Michigan and centrally located in the Lower Peninsula. It is the fifth largest city in the state. The Lansing-East Lansing metropolitan area is the third largest metro area in Michigan.
Why should Detroit be the capital of Michigan? Editorial page editor Nancy Kaffer's got reasons — at least 12 of 'em.
From 1805 to 1847, Detroit was the territorial capital city of the old federal Michigan Territory (1805–1837), and later first state capital, in January 1837, when after 32 years, the old federal territory was admitted by act of the United States Congress and approved by seventh President Andrew Jackson (1769–1845, served 1829–1837), as ...