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- Nicknames: Water - Winter Wonderland
- Features: Upper Peninsula , residents nicknamed "Yoopers[?]", Downstaters are known as 'Michiganders' or 'Michiganians'.
- Motto: "If You Seek a Pleasant Peninsula, Look about You." which is a canny misquote of Sir Christopher Wren, the famous British Architect.
- State Bird: red breasted robin
- State Rock: Petoskey Stone[?], which is composed of fossilized diatoms from long ago when the middle of the continent was covered with a shallow sea.
- State Tree: White Pine

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