Wisconsin
is among the fifty states in the United States of
America and it is located on the north-central part of
the country. This state is surrounded by two great lakes
in the country and four states. These four states are
Minnesota, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois.
The largest
city in this state is Milwaukee and its capital city is
Madison. On its east Wisconsin is surrounded by Lake
Michigan; on its west it borders Minnesota and Iowa; on
its north it surrounded by Michigan, Lake Superior and
the Montreal River; and on its south it is bordered by
Illinois.
About 46% of the area of this state is covered in
forests. The census of year 2000 showed that there were
about 5,363,675 people living in this state.
About 50.6%
of the residents in Wisconsin are females and the rest
are males. The state has people of different ethnicities
and some of the main ethnic groups in this state are
English, German, Norwegian, Irish and Polish.
The five
major cities in this state where most of the residents
live in are Milwaukee, Green Bay, Kenosha, Madison and
Racine.
The capital city of this state, i.e. Milwaukee, has
about 3/4th of Wisconsin’s African Americans.
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