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Ohio
The state of Ohio is found in the Midwestern part of the United States. As a branch of the Great Lakes region, Ohio has long been a geographical and cultural turning point in North America. At the time of European contact,Native Americans in the existing territory of Ohio integrated the Wyandots, Iroquois, Miamis, and Shawnee. Ohio was the first state to be included to the Union under the Northwest Ordinance. Its U.S. postal acronym is OH; its old-style acronym was O.
Ohio's geographic position has proved to be an asset for economic expansion and growth. Because Ohio connects the Midwest to the Northeast, much business and cargo traffic passes through its boundaries along its well-made highways. Ohio has the nation's 10th largest highway network, and of 70% of North America's manufacturing capability. To the North and is within a one-day drive 50% of North America's inhabitants, Lake Erie brings Ohio 502 km (312 miles) of coastline, which allows for several seaports. Ohio's southern boundary is defined by the Ohio River and much of the northern boundary is depicted by Lake Erie. Ohio's fellow citizens are Ontario Canada, Michigan to the northwest, West Virginia on the southeast, to the north, Indiana to the west, Kentucky on the south, and Pennsylvania to the east. Ohio's borders were define by bounds and metes in the Enabling Act of 1802.
Ohio’s climate of is a humid continental climate throughout most of the state with the exception in the farthest southern counties of Ohio's Bluegrass district section which are to be found on the northern border of the humid subtropical atmosphere and Upland South area of the United States. Summers are naturally hot and humid all over the State, while winters usually variety from cold to cool. Rainfall in Ohio is fairly constant. Rigorous weather is not rare in the state, although there are usually fewer tornadoes in Ohio than in states to be found in the so-called Tornado Alley.Harsh lake effect snowstorms are also not rare on the southeast shore of Lake Erie, which is located in an area preferred as the Snowbelt.
Although for the most part not in a subtropical climate, some warmer-climate fauna and flora does reach fine into Ohio. For example, a number of trees with greater southern ranges, for instance the blackjack oak, Quercus marilandica, are located at their northernmost in Ohio just about north of the Ohio River. Also supporting this climatic shift from a continental to subtropical climate, several plants such as the Albizia julibrissin (mimosa), Crape Myrtle, Southern magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora), and even the rare Needle Palm are hardy land materials frequently used as yard, street, and garden plantings in the Bluegrass area of Ohio; but these similar plants will basically not flourish in much of the remaining of the State. This fascinating change may be oseen while roaming through Ohio on Interstate 75; the observant tourist of this sundry state may even catch a glance of Cincinnati's familiar wall lizard, one of the few instances of permanent "subtropical" fauna in Ohio.
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