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Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the ___MASK68___ . The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word " mishigamaa ", meaning " large water " or " large lake ". Michigan is the tenth most populous of the 50 ___MASK68___ , with the 11th most extensive total area ( the largest state by total area east of the Mississippi River ). Its capital is Lansing , and its largest city is Detroit . East Hancock is a primarily residential neighbourhood in Hancock , Michigan , though it also includes the easternmost block of Quincy Street , the main street of Hancock ' s downtown . North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere . It can also be considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas . It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean , to the east by the ___MASK76___ , to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean , and to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea . Downtown is a term primarily used in North America by English speakers to refer to a city ' s core ( or center ) or central business district ( CBD ), often in a geographical , commercial , or communal sense . The term is not generally used in British English , whose speakers instead use the term city centre . Hancock is a city in Houghton County , Michigan , ___MASK68___ and is located on Copper Island , which is part of the Keweenaw Peninsula , on the Keewenaw Waterway directly opposite Houghton , Michigan . The population was 4 , 634 at the 2010 census . British English is the English language as spoken and written in the ___MASK5___ or , more broadly , throughout the British Isles . Slight regional variations exist in formal , written English in the ___MASK5___ . For example , the adjective " wee " is almost exclusively used in parts of ___MASK59___ and ___MASK21___ , and occasionally Yorkshire , whereas " little " is predominant elsewhere . Nevertheless , there is a meaningful degree of uniformity in " written " English within the ___MASK5___ , and this could be described by the term " British English ". The forms of " spoken " English , however , vary considerably more than in most other areas of the ___MASK70___ where English is spoken , so a uniform concept of British English is more difficult to apply to the spoken language . According to Tom McArthur in the " Oxford Guide to ___MASK70___ English ", British English shares " all the ambiguities and tensions in the word " British " and as a result can be used and interpreted in two ways , more broadly or more narrowly , within a range of blurring and ambiguity ." The Keweenaw Peninsula (, sometimes locally / kivn /) is the northernmost part of Michigan ' s Upper Peninsula . It projects into Lake Superior and was the site of the first copper boom in the ___MASK68___ . As of the 2000 census , its population was roughly 43 , 200 . Its major industries are now logging and tourism , as well as jobs related to Michigan Technological University and Finlandia University . Copper Island is a local name given to the northern part of the Keweenaw Peninsula ( projecting northeastward into Lake Superior at the western end of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan , ___MASK51___ ), separated from the rest of the Keweenaw Peninsula by Portage Lake and the Keweenaw Waterway .