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Toledo
A Business Friendly City of the Future1
Ranked #1 "Most Business Friendly City in North America"1
Ranked a "Top 10 City of the Future in North America"1
Awarded "100 Best Communities for Young People"2
Ranked 81st "Most Livable Community" out of 3793
Top five "Most Unwired Cities in the Country"4
"Topr Five Cities with the Best Tasting Drinking Water in America"5
Top 20 "Hot Cities for Entrepreneurs"6
1. JDi Magazine April 2007 2. America's Promise. The Afor Youth Jan 2007 3.Places Rated Almanac April 2007
4. Intel June 2005 5. U.S. Conference of Mayors 2007 6. Entrepreneur Sept 2006
Ohio, midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania (NE) West Virginia (SE), Kentucky (S), Indiana (W), and Michigan and Lake Erie (N).
Area, 41,222 sq mi (106,765 sq km).
Pop. (2000) 11,353,140, a 4.7% increase since the 1990 census.
Capital and largest city, Columbus.
Motto, With God, All Things Are Possible. State bird, cardinal
State flower, scarlet carnation. State tree, buckeye
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 Ohio is highly industrialized, yet it also continues to draw economic riches from the earth. Among national leaders in the production of lime, clays, and salt, it is a historic center of ceramic and glass industries. Ohio's soil supports rich farms, especially where it was improved ages ago by additions of glacier-ground limestone. Although most of the state's income is derived from commerce and manufacturing, Ohio also has extensive farmland, and large amounts of corn, soybeans, hay, wheat, cattle, hogs, and dairy items are produced, although the number of family farms is rapidly dwindling.
*Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, Copyright (c) 2003. |