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below Indiana (i/ÉªndiËÃ¦nÉ/) is a U.S. state located in the
midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America. Indiana is
the 38th largest by area and the 16th most populous of the 50
United States. Indiana is the least extensive state in the
contiguous United States west of the Appalachian Mountains. Its
capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted
to the United States as the 19th U.S. state on December 11,
1816. Before it became a territory, varying cultures of
indigenous peoples and historic Native Americans inhabited
Indiana for thousands of years. Since its founding as a
territory, settlement patterns in Indiana have reflected
regional cultural segmentation present in the Eastern United
States; the state's northernmost tier was settled primarily by
people from New England and New York, Central Indiana by
migrants from the Mid-Atlantic states and from adjacent Ohio,
and Southern Indiana by settlers from the Southern states,