Midwest
The Midwest is known as "America's Heartland": the massive Great Lakes, the vast northwoods, wide-open plains full of corn and wheat, a patchwork of industrial cities and small towns, and one of America's greatest cities, Chicago.Tap on the map to travel |
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Chicago
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Chicago is the home of the blues and the truth of jazz, the heart of comedy and the idea of the skyscraper.
Detroit
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Detroit is a major metropolis in the US state of Michigan that has had a profound impact on the world.
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Ohio
Ohio's nickname is "the Heart of It All", purportedly because of its shape, its central location…Illinois
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Illinois is a state in the Midwest of the United States of America.
Michigan
Michigan is an American state in the upper Midwest and the heart of the Great Lakes region.Minnesota
Minnesota is a state in the Midwest of the USA. The 12th largest state in the country, it is commonly referred to as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes".Missouri
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Missouri is a state in the American Midwest known as the "Show-Me State".
Iowa
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Iowa, a state with gently rolling green hills in the Midwest region of the United States, was admitted to the Union in 1846 as the 29th state.
Midwest
- Type: Region with 65,000,000 residents
- Description: one of the four U.S. geographic regions
- Category: U.S. region
- Location: United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
42.6598° or 42° 39' 35" northLongitude of center
-93.9386° or 93° 56' 19" westPopulation
65,000,000Elevation
1,099 feet (335 metres)GeoNames ID
11887750Wikidata ID
Q186545Midwest Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: وسط غرب الولايات المتحدة
- Armenian: Միջին Արևմուտք
- Asturian: Mediu Oeste d'Estaos Xuníos
- Asturian: Middle West
- Asturian: Midwest
- Azerbaijani: Orta Qərbi ABŞ
- Basque: Mendebalde Ertaina
- Basque: Mendebaldeko Erdialdeko Estatu Batuak
- Belarusian: Сярэдні Захад
- Belarusian: Сярэдні Захад ЗША
- Bengali: মধ্যপশ্চিম যুক্তরাষ্ট্র
- Bosnian: Srednji zapad
- Bulgarian: Среден Запад
- Bulgarian: Среден запад
- Catalan: Mig-Oest dels Estats Units
- Catalan: Oest Mitjà
- Catalan: Oest Mitjà dels Estats Units
- Chinese: 美国中西部
- Chinese: 美國中西部
- Croatian: Srednji Zapad
- Croatian: Srednji zapad
- Czech: Středozápad Spojených států
- Czech: Středozápad Spojených států amerických
- Czech: Středozápad USA
- Danish: Middle West
- Danish: Midtvesten
- Danish: Midwest
- Dimli (individual language): Werteyrocawanê Dewletanê Yewbiyayeyan
- Dutch: Midden-Westen
- Dutch: Middenwesten
- Dutch: Midwesten
- Dutch: Midwestern United States
- English: Middle West
- English: Midwestern United States
- Esperanto: Mezokcidenta Usono
- Esperanto: Middle West
- Esperanto: Midwest
- Esperanto: Usona Mez-Okcidento
- Esperanto: Usona Mez-Uesto
- Estonian: Kesk-Lääs
- Finnish: Keskilänsi
- Finnish: Yhdysvaltain keskilänsi
- French: Mid-Ouest
- French: Middle West
- French: Midwest
- Galician: Medio Oeste
- German: Amerikanischer Mittelwesten
- German: Mittlerer Westen
- Greek: Μεσοδυτικές Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες
- Hebrew: המערב התיכון
- Hindi: मध्य पश्निम संयुक्त राज्य
- Hungarian: Közép-Nyugat
- Icelandic: Miðvesturríkin
- Indonesian: Barat Tengah Amerika Serikat
- Indonesian: Midwest
- Irish: Meániarthar na Stát Aontaithe
- Italian: Medio Occidente degli Stati Uniti d'America
- Italian: Mid-West
- Italian: Midwest
- Italian: Stati Uniti medio occidentali
- Japanese: アメリカ中西部
- Japanese: アメリカ合衆国中西部
- Japanese: 中西部
- Japanese: 米国中西部
- Korean: 미국 중서부
- Latvian: Vidējie Rietumi
- Lithuanian: JAV Vidurio Vakarai
- Lithuanian: Vidurio Vakarai
- Luxembourgish: Mëttlere Westen
- Macedonian: Среден Запад
- Malay: Barat Tengah Amerika Syarikat
- Northern Sami: Gaskaoarji
- Northern Sami: Gaskaviesttar
- Norwegian: Midtvesten
- Norwegian Bokmål: Midtvesten
- Norwegian Bokmål: Midwest
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Midt-Vesten
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Midtvesten
- Occitan (post 1500): Oèst Mejan
- Occitan (post 1500): Oèst Mejan dels Estats Units
- Occitan (post 1500): Oèst Mijan
- Persian: ایالت های غرب میانه امریکا
- Persian: ایالت های غرب میانه ایالات متحده
- Persian: ایالت های غرب میانهٔ آمریکا
- Persian: ایالتهای غرب میانه آمریکا
- Persian: ایالتهای غرب میانه امریکا
- Persian: ایالتهای غرب میانه ایالات متحده
- Persian: ایالتهای غرب میانهٔ آمریکا
- Persian: ایالتهای غرب میانهٔ امریکا
- Persian: ایالتهای غرب میانهٔ ایالات متحده
- Persian: غرب میانه
- Persian: غرب میانه امریکا
- Polish: Middle West
- Polish: Midwest
- Polish: Midwestern United States
- Portuguese: Centro-Oeste
- Portuguese: Meio-Oeste
- Portuguese: Região Centro-Oeste dos Estados Unidos
- Portuguese: Região centro-oeste dos estados unidos da américa
- Romanian: Midwestern United States
- Romanian: Vestul mijlociu
- Romanian: Vestul mijlociu al Statelor Unite ale Americii
- Russian: Средний Запад
- Russian: Средний Запад США
- Sardinian: Istados Unidos Otzidentales Mèdios
- Serbian: Midwest
- Serbian: Srednji zapad
- Serbian: Амерички средњи запад
- Serbian: Мидвест
- Serbian: Средњи Запад
- Serbian: Средњи запад
- Serbo-Croatian: Srednji Zapad
- Slovak: Midwest
- Slovak: Midwestern United States
- Slovak: Stredozápad
- Slovak: Stredozápad Spojených štátov
- Slovenian: Srednji zahod ZDA
- Slovenian: Srednji zahod Združenih držav Amerike
- Slovenian: ameriški Srednji zahod
- Spanish: Medio Oeste
- Spanish: Medio Oeste de Estados Unidos
- Spanish: Medio Oeste de los Estados Unidos
- Spanish: Medio oeste de Estados Unidos
- Spanish: Medio oeste de los Estados Unidos
- Spanish: Middle West
- Spanish: Midwest
- Spanish: Midwestern United States
- Swedish: Mellanvästern
- Swedish: Mellanvästra USA
- Swedish: Midwest
- Tamil: நடுமேற்கு ஐக்கிய அமெரிக்கா
- Tatar: Урта көнбатыш
- Turkish: Midwestern United States
- Turkish: Ortabatı eyaletleri
- Turkish: Ortabatı eyâletleri
- Ukrainian: Середній Захід
- Urdu: وسط مغربی ریاستہائے متحدہ
- Venetian: Stati Unii mèdio-osidentałi
- Vietnamese: Các tiểu bang Trung Tây
- Vietnamese: Trung Tây Hoa Kỳ
- Volapük: Lamerikän Zänodavesüdik
- Western Frisian: Midwesten
- Amerika Serikat Barat Tengah
- Stati Uniti d'America medio-occidentali
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Midwest. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.