Indiana

Indiana is an American state. It can be found in the north of the country, south of Lake Michigan. Its name roughly means "land of the Indians". Nearly seven million people live in Indiana. About a third of them live in the area around the capital, Indianapolis. Also, many people live in the Northwest, which is part of the Chicago metropolitan area. Aside from some medium-sized towns like Fort Wayne and Bloomington, the rest of the state consists mainly of rural areas where there is a lot of agriculture.

After the Seven Years' War from 1756 to 1763, many British settlers settled in the country north of the Ohio River, which was still mainly populated by natives at that time. After American independence, Indiana initially belonged to the Northwest Territory, which roughly corresponds to the present-day states of Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Minnesota. It has been a separate state since 1800 and has it's present size since 1805.