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.Ĭhicago is the most populous city in the American Midwest and the third most populous in the United States. The East North Central Division includes Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin, all of which are also part of the Great Lakes region. The Midwest is divided by the Census Bureau into two divisions. The 2020 United States census put the population of the Midwest at 68,995,685. Major rivers in the region include, from east to west, the Ohio River, the Upper Mississippi River, and the Missouri River. 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. 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. 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. It was officially named the North Central Region by the Census Bureau until 1984.
It occupies the northern central part of the United States. 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").
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