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ˈmɪdˈwɛstmid·west

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Midwest, middle west, midwestern United Statesnoun

    the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America)

Wiktionary

  1. Midwestnoun

    The area of the continental United States contained in the central third of the of the country, especially the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

Wikipedia

  1. midwest

    The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau (also known as "Region 2"). It occupies the northern central part of the United States. It was officially named the North Central Region by the Census Bureau until 1984. It is between the Northeastern United States and the Western United States, with Canada to the north and the Southern United States to the south. The Census Bureau's definition consists of 12 states in the north central United States: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. The region generally lies on the broad Interior Plain between the states occupying the Appalachian Mountain range and the states occupying the Rocky Mountain range. Major rivers in the region include, from east to west, the Ohio River, the Upper Mississippi River, and the Missouri River. The 2020 United States census put the population of the Midwest at 68,995,685. The Midwest is divided by the Census Bureau into two divisions. The East North Central Division includes Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin, all of which are also part of the Great Lakes region. The West North Central Division includes Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, and South Dakota, several of which are located, at least partly, within the Great Plains region. Chicago is the most populous city in the American Midwest and the third most populous in the United States. Chicago and its suburbs, together called Chicagoland, form the largest metropolitan area with 10 million people, making it the fourth largest metropolitan area in North America, after Greater Mexico City, the New York Metropolitan Area, and Greater Los Angeles. Other large Midwestern cities include Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Omaha, Minneapolis, Wichita, Cleveland, St. Paul, St. Louis, and Cincinnati. Large Midwestern metropolitan areas include Metro Detroit, Minneapolis–St. Paul, Greater St. Louis, Greater Cincinnati, the Kansas City metro area, the Columbus metro area, and Greater Cleveland.

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  1. midwest

    The Midwest is a region within the United States comprised of 12 states: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ohio and Wisconsin. It is noted for its diverse economy encompassing agriculture, manufacturing, technology and finance. The region is often associated with traditional American values and culture due to its small towns and industrial cities.

Wikidata

  1. Midwest

    Midwest is a town in Natrona County, Wyoming, United States. It is part of the Casper, Wyoming Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 404 at the 2010 census.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Midwest in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Midwest in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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  1. Mike Strain:

    About 50% of the grain export capacity in the lower Mississippi River is not operational, the grain harvest is coming in from the Midwest, and a lot of that grain is going to come down the river to us.

  2. Scott Shelton:

    It's a better contract than a few ago, when its relevance as an oil pricing benchmark was questionable with the bulk of U.S. crude production trapped in the Midwest without adequate delivery, now with all the pipeline extensions and removal of transportation bottlenecks, the contract is a lot more efficient in delivery and should get a higher weighting compared to other crude grades out there.

  3. Brian Peery:

    It's now in the realm of possibility that we have a recession in 2016, especially some localized recessions in the Midwest states, at a certain point, the benefits of low oil to the consumer gives way to losses in the job market in the oil patch, especially in the Midwest.

  4. Trisha Constantine:

    There's actually a website called gobacktoOhio.com, maybe it's because I live upstate, but there are a lot of people from Greenville who didn't grow up here. There's a European base and people from the Midwest.

  5. Daniel Brooks:

    Fox News basically says thatthere's a high risk of lack of sufficient resources, particularly in the Midwest, in Texas and in California or out in the Far West, when you have that climate impacts that are driving higher demand that also are impacting the ability of the resources to produce at the same time that you really get risk.

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