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Lansing, Michigan. / 42.71417°N 84.56000°W / 42.71417; -84.56000. Lansing ( / ˈlænsɪŋ /) 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.
Michigan State Capitol. / 42.73361°N 84.55556°W / 42.73361; -84.55556. The Michigan State Capitol is the building that houses the legislative branch of the government of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is in the portion of the state capital of Lansing which lies in Ingham County.
Downtown Lansing is the central business district of Lansing, the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan.Located in the west-central part of the city along the banks of the Grand River, downtown Lansing is the primary home of the state's government and three colleges, and also contains sports facilities, museums, entertainment and retail, and a growing residential population.
With a population of nearly 10.12 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 area east of the Mississippi River. [b] Its capital is Lansing, and its largest city is Detroit.
This is a list of capital cities of the United States, including places that serve or have served as federal, state, insular area, territorial, colonial and Native American capitals. Washington, D.C. has been the federal capital of the United States since 1800. Each U.S. state has its own capital city, as do many of its insular areas.
There are 83 counties in the U.S. state of Michigan. The boundaries of these counties have not changed substantially since 1897. However, throughout the 19th century, the state legislature frequently adjusted county boundaries. County creation was intended to fulfill the goal of establishing government over unorganized territory, but a more ...
Mackinac Island ( / ˈmækənɔː / MAK-ə-naw, locally / ˈmækənə / MAK-ə-nə) is a city in Mackinac County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 583. Established as an important fur trading center in the eighteenth century, with a predominately French-speaking population of French Canadians and ...
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, frankly, are ...