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Ohio is a Midwestern state in the northeastern corner of the United States. It was the first and eastern-most state in the Midwest admitted to the Union under the Northwest Ordinance. Its U.S. postal abbreviation is OH. Ohio's capital is Columbus, located close to the center of the state. Ohio is located on Lake Erie, is connected by major highways and borders several states. Ohio's southern border is defined by the Ohio River (with the border being at the 1793 low-water mark on the north side of the river), and much of the northern border is defined by Lake Erie. It borders Pennsylvania on the east, Michigan in the northwest near Toledo, Ontario, Canada across Lake Erie to the north, Indiana to the west, Kentucky on the south, and West Virginia on the southeast.

Much of Ohio features glaciated plains, with an exceptionally flat area in the northwest being known as the Great Black Swamp. This glaciated region in the northwest and central state is bordered to the east and southeast first by a belt known as the glaciated Allegheny Plateau, and then by another belt known as the unglaciated Allegheny Plateau. Most of Ohio is of low relief, but the unglaciated Allegheny Plateau features rugged hills and forests. Significant rivers within the state include the Cuyahoga River, Maumee River, Miami River, Muskingum River, and Scioto River. The rivers in the northern part of the state drain into the northern Atlantic Ocean via Lake Erie and the St. Lawrence River, and the rivers in the southern part of the state drain into the Gulf of Mexico via the Ohio and then the Mississippi.

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Ohio boasts more than 44,000 miles of rivers and streams flowing either south into the Ohio River or north into Lake Erie. The Ohio River flows more than 450 miles along Ohio's southern borders. Lake Erie covers over 3,400 square miles with the International Line of the United States and Canada stretching about 20 miles north of the Ohio shore.Forests encompass about a fourth of Ohio's landmass with the majority of the forest being comprised of hardwoods including black walnuts, maples, ash and oak.

Common shrubs included the colorful dogwood and azalea. Common wildflowers include blazing stars, anemones, blue sages, Indian pipes, and wild indigos. White-tailed deer are the dominant large wild animal of Ohio. Raccoons, red foxes, skunks, muskrats, and opossums have significant numbers. Several hundred bird species inhabit, nest or migrate in the midwestern state. Native fish species include bluegill, walleye, pike, perch, catfish, muskie, and bass.

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Akron Alliance Amherst Ashland Ashtabula Athens Austintown Avon Batavia Beachwood Beavercreek Bedford Heights Bellefontaine Bellevue Bellville Berlin Blue Ash Bluffton Boardman Bolivar Boston Heights Bowling Green Brimfield Brook Park Brunswick Buckeye Lake Bucyrus Cambridge Canal Winchester Canton Cedarville Cincinnati Circleville	Cleveland Clyde Columbus Concord Coshocton Cuyahoga Falls Dayton Defiance Delaware Dover Dublin East Liverpool Eaton Elyria Englewood Fairborn Fairfield Fairview Park Findlay Franklin Fremont Gallipolis Geneva Girard Greenville Grove City Heath Hebron Hilliard Holland Huber Heights Hudson	Huron Independence Jackson Jeffersonville Kent Kenton Lakewood Lancaster Lebanon Lima Logan London Macedonia Mansfield Marietta Marion Marysville Mason Maumee Mayfield Heights Medina Mentor Miamisburg Middleburg Heights Middletown Milan Millbury Millersburg Monroe Montpelier Mount Gilead Mount Vernon	Napoleon Newark Newcomerstown New Paris New Philadelphia Niles North Canton North Lima North Olmsted North Ridgeville Northwood Norwalk Obetz Olmsted Oregon Oxford Perrysburg Pickerington Piqua Port Clinton Portsmouth Reynoldsburg Richfield Rossford Saint Clairsville Saint Marys Sandusky Seville Sharonville Sidney Springdale Springfield	Steubenville Strasburg Streetsboro Strongsville Sunbury Swanton Sylvania Tiffin Tipp City Toledo Troy Twinsburg Uniontown Upper Sandusky Vandalia Wadsworth Wapakoneta Warren Warrensville Heights Washington C.H. West Chester Westerville Westlake Wheelersburg Wickliffe Willoughby Wilmington Wooster Worthington Xenia Youngstown Zanesville

Ohio, birthplace of eight US Presidents, is located in the heart of the Midwest. The sandy shores of Lake Erie mark the State’s northern border and the long and winding Ohio River marks its southern border. The State’s expanse of fertile farmland is dotted with industrial centres, but also embraces the rolling hills overlooking the Scioto River Valley in the north, which become wilder and steeper as they reach the foothills of the Appalachian mountain chain, and the thick forest lands full of waterfalls and sandstone cliffs in the south, which include Hockings Hills State Park and the vast Wayne National Forest.

The Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation area in the northeast near Cleveland has rugged terrain with river valleys and steep, forested hills. The State also has 40,869km (25,543 miles) of waterways, including the Mohican and Tuscarawas rivers. Columbus is Ohio’s capital and is the largest city in both area and population – it is the 15th-largest city in the USA.

Ohio's public lands support camping, hiking, backpacking, horseback riding and picnicking among other pursuits. Its lakes and rivers offer excellent fishing, boating and swimming to visitors and residents alike.