Wisconsin
Wisconsin is a US state in the Midwest, admitted to the Union in 1848. Its capital is Madison, and it goes by the nickname "the Badger State". The USPS abbreviation is WI.
Its geographic centre sits at 44.62° N, 89.99° W, the reference point GEOPUNK measures your guesses against in the US state games.
- »Wisconsin produces more cheese than any other state.
- »The Republican Party was founded in Ripon in 1854.
- »It has more than 15,000 lakes.
Wisconsin touches four neighbours. Taking each direction from one centre to the other and measuring the boundary they share: Minnesota northwest, 506 km, Michigan east, 362 km, Illinois south, 237 km and Iowa southwest, 144 km. The longest of those runs is with Minnesota.
Madison is built on an isthmus between two lakes, and the state capitol there is the only one in the country built on an isthmus.
145,156 km² (56,045 sq mi), 26th largest of 50 states by land area, almost exactly the size of Iowa.
Set against the country archive, that puts it closest in size to Suriname.
The state coat of arms with a sailor and a miner, and a badger above the shield. The word Wisconsin and the date 1848 were added in 1979 because the flag was indistinguishable from other seal-on-blue designs.
Easily confused with Michigan, Idaho and North Dakota.
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