| HighestElevUS = 1,979 | HighestElev = 603 | MeanElevUS = 902 | MeanElev = 275 | LowestPoint = Lake Erie | LowestElevUS = 571 | LowestElev = 174 | ISOCode = US-MI | Website = www.michigan.gov }}Michigan (, roughly MISH-uh-gun) is a Midwestern state of the United States of America, located in the east north central states, as defined by the United States Census Bureau. It was named after Lake Michigan, whose name is a French adaptation of the Ojibwe term mishigami, meaning "large water" or "large lake". Bounded by four of the five Great Lakes, plus Lake Saint Clair, Michigan has the longest freshwater shoreline in the world. http://coastalmanagement.noaa.gov/mystate/mi.html In 2005, Michigan ranked third for the number of registered recreational boats, behind California and Florida. [LINK: http://www.discoverboating.com/info/pressrelease.aspx?id=14361]

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