Indiana

Indiana
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other Federal States
base data
pointed name:	The Hoosier state (The Hoosier State)
capital:	Indianapolis
largest city:	Indianapolis
surface
rank (within the USA):	38
altogether:	94,321 km ²
country:	92,897 km ²
water (%):	1,424 km ² (1.51%)
inhabitant
rank (within thatThe USA):	14
altogether (2004):	6.237.569
density:	66 E./km ²
member state
place:	19
since:	11. December 1816
Geografie
time belt:	Eastern: UTC-5 cent ral: UTC-6/-5
degree of latitude:	37°47'N to 41°46'N
degree of longitude:	84°49'W to 88°4'W
broad:	225 km
length:	435 km
highest situation:	383 m
average situation:	210 m
deepest situation:	98 m
politics
governor:	Mitch Daniels
abbreviations
postal:	IN
official:
ISO 3166-2:	US-IN

Indiana means “the country of the Indians”. It is a Federal State of the USA, the capital is Indianapolis. The postalAbbreviation of the state is IN. The inhabitants Indianas are called “Hoosier “.

Table of contents 1 history 2 geography 3 population of 4 largest cities 5 economics 6 other 7 Web on the left of

history

before the first Europeans to Indiana lived there Delaware came, Miami, Potawatomi, Shawnee and Wea Indian.

1679 entered French researchers from the north the country. Starting from 1763 the country fell to the British, who hardly used it for the time being. 1787 became Indiana part of the northwest territory. 1800 became the northwest territory on the sizethe future Federal State Ohio makes smaller, and the remainder (inclusive the future Federal State Indiana) became its own territory, with the name “Indiana territory”. With the creation 1805 of the Michigan territory and 1809 of the Illinois territory were reduced the Indiana territory to the surface of the today's Federal State. Indiana stepped thatUnion 1816 as 19. State.

geography

Indiana is limited in the north by the Michigan lake and by the Federal State Michigan, in the east by Ohio, and in the south Indiana with Kentucky Ohio River divides as border river, in the west is appropriate for Illinois. Highest point in Indiana is Franklin Township in the Wayne County (428 m).

• List of the Countys in Indiana

population

Indianas number of inhabitants is 2003 about 6.195.643, of it 85.8% white (under it 22.7% with German ancestors), 8.4 black ones and Afro Americans, to 3.5% Hispanics,1.0% Asian, 0.3% Indian (approx. 13.000). Constant Zuwanderung comes particularly from Asia (30,000 Asians) and Latin America (100,000 Latinos).

Indiana is predominant a state with small urbanisation and therefore towns and central centers. The largest city and capital are Indianapolis at the same time, where one thatfamous-constant motorraces of the world, which take place Brickyard so mentioned of Indianapolis over 500 miles annually.

largest cities

city	County	inhabitant of 1.4.2000	inhabitants 1.7.2004
Indianapolis	Marion	781,870	784,242
away Wayne	all	205,727	219,351
Evansville	Vanderburgh	121,582	117,156
South Bend	Saint Joseph	Vigo	struck
107.789	105,494	Gary	Lake
102,746	99,516	Hammond	Lake
83,048	79,985	Bloomington	Monroe
69,291	68,779	Muncie	Delaware
67,430	67,166	Anderson	Madison
59,734 57,942	Terre	59,614	57,224
Lafayette	Tippecanoe	56,397	59,753
Elkhart	Elkhart	51,874	51,878
Mishawaka	Saint Joseph	46,557	48,385
Kokomo	Howard	46,113	46,070
smelling moon	Wayne	39,124	37,943
Columbus	Bartholomew	39,059	39,251
Lawrence	Marion	38,915	40,878
Fisher's	Hamilton	37,835	54,330
Carmel	Hamilton	37,733	58,198
new Albany	Floyd	37,603	36,877
Greenwood	Greenwood	36,037	40,813

• list of the cities in Indiana

economics

Indianas most important sector of the economy is the agriculture. Thosemost important agricultural products of the state are corn, soy beans, wheat, tobacco, pigs, cattle, dairy products and eggs. Industrielle of products are steel, electronics, logistics equipment, chemical products, refined oil, products of coal and mechanical engineering.

other

The Hoosier State
state bird:	Red cardinal
state flower:	Pfingstrose
state song:	“On the bank OF the Wabash, far Away "
state tree:	Tulip tree

Indiana is one of 3 US Federal States, which the summer time did not introduce. Exceptions for this are the Counties at the west border to Illinois (LaPorte, Porter, and Lake Counties in the metropolitan areaof Chicago, as well as Spencer, Warrick, Vanderburgh, Posey and Gibson Counties in the southwest point of the state around Evansville), those the cent ral Time inclusive Follow summer time (UTC-6 cent ral standard Time/UTC-5 cent ral Daylight Savings Time). The remainder of the state remains the whole year over on EasternStandard Time (UTC-5). Unofficially however some inhabitants of the border areas place around Cincinnati (Ohio) and/or. Louisville (Kentucky) their clocks nevertheless still in the summer on UTC-4 (Eastern Daylight Savings Time) over, particularly if they oscillate vocationally in these Federal States. To 28. April 2005the parliament decided from Indiana that all Counties, starting from 2006, is to consider in the future summer time.

Indiana is also the name of a city in Pennsylvania; Indiana (Pennsylvania) compares.

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