Michigan Resources
Borders Indiana and Ohio to the south, and Wisconsin to the southwest of the Upper Peninsula. The state also borders Minnesota , Illinois, the Canadian province of Ontario to the north and east, and the Canadian First Nation (Indian) reserve of Walpole Island, but only on water boundaries in the Great Lakes system. The Straits of Mackinac divide Michigan into two peninsulas: the Upper Peninsula (often called simply "The U.P.") and the Lower Peninsula. They are connected only by the five-mile-long Mackinac Bridge—the third longest suspension bridge in the world. The Great Lakes that border Michigan are Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. The heavily forested Upper Peninsula is mountainous; the Porcupine Mountains, rising to an altitude of almost 2,000 feet above the sea, forming the watershed between the streams flowing into Lake Superior and Lake Michigan. The surface on either side of this range is rugged. The state's highest point is Mount Arvon at 1,979 feet (603 m). The peninsula is as large as Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island combined, but has less than 330,000 inhabitants, who are sometimes called "Yoopers" (from "U.P.'ers") and whose speech has been heavily influenced by the large number of Scandinavian and Canadian immigrants who settled the area during the mining boom of the late 1800's.
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