Ohio ( /oʊˈhaɪ.oʊ/ (help·info)) is a Midwestern The Midwestern United States is one of the four geographic regions within the United States of America that are officially recognized by the United States Census Bureau state A U.S. state is any one of 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government . Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. However, state citizenship is very flexible, and no government approval is required to move of the United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the.[17] The thirty-fourth largest state by area in the U.S.,[18] it is the seventh-most populous with nearly 11.5 million residents.[19] Ohio, whose name was derived from the Seneca Seneca is the language of the Seneca people, one of the Six Nations of the Iroquois League. About 10,000 Seneca live in the United States and Canada, primarily on reservations in western New York state, with others living in Oklahoma and near Brantford, Ontario word ohi:yo’, meaning "large creek,"[20][21][22][23][24] was formed primarily from the Ohio Territory The Ohio Country was the name used in the 18th century for the regions of North America west of the Appalachian Mountains and in the region of the upper Ohio River south of Lake Erie. One of the first frontier regions of the United States, the area encompassed roughly the present-day states of Ohio, eastern Indiana, western Pennsylvania, and and was admitted to the Union as the seventeenth state[25] (and the first under the Northwest Ordinance The Northwest Ordinance was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States. The Ordinance unanimously passed on July 13, 1787. The primary effect of the ordinance was the creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the United States out of the region south of the Great Lakes, north and west of the Ohio)[25] on March 1, 1803.[8] Ohio is known as the "Buckeye State" for its prevalence of Ohio Buckeye trees The tree species Aesculus glabra is commonly known as Ohio buckeye, American buckeye, or fetid buckeye. It derives its unflattering common name from the disagreeable odor generated from the flowers, crushed leaves, broken twigs, or bruised bark, and, as such, Ohioans are also known as "Buckeyes."[1]
The government of Ohio is composed of the executive branch, led by the Governor The first constitution of 1802 allowed governors to serve for two years, limited to six of any eight years, commencing on the first Monday in the December following an election.[B] The current constitution of 1851 removed the term limit, and shifted the start of the term to the second Monday in January following an election.[C] In 1908, Ohio; the legislative branch, which comprises the Ohio General Assembly The Ohio General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio. It consists of the 99-member Ohio House of Representatives and the 33-member Ohio Senate. Both houses of the General Assembly meet at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus; and the judicial branch, which is led by the Supreme Court The Supreme Court of Ohio is the highest court in the U.S. state of Ohio, with final authority over interpretations of Ohio law and the Ohio Constitution. The court has seven members, a chief justice and six associate justices, each serving six-year terms. Since 2004, the court has met in the Ohio Judicial Center on the east bank of the Scioto. Currently, Ohio occupies 18 seats in the United States House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives, commonly referred to as the "House," is the lower house of the bicameral United States Congress, the upper house being the United States Senate. The composition and powers of the House and the Senate are established in Article One of the Constitution . Each state receives representation in the.[26] Ohio is known for its status as both a swing state In United States presidential politics, a swing state is a state in which no candidate has overwhelming support, meaning that any of the major candidates has a reasonable chance of winning the state's electoral college votes. Such states are targets of both major political parties in presidential elections, since winning these states is the best[27] and a bellwether The term is derived from the Middle English bellewether and refers to the practice of placing a bell around the neck of a castrated ram leading its flock of sheep. The movements of the flock could be noted by hearing the bell before the flock was in sight[27] in national elections.
The population density of Ohio ranks ninth among all U.S. states.[28] Nonetheless, Ohio currently suffers from a negative net population migration The movement of populations in modern times has continued under the form of both voluntary migration within one's region, country, or beyond, and involuntary migration . People who migrate are called migrants, or, more specifically, emigrants, immigrants, or settlers, depending on historical setting, circumstances and perspective,[29] and an increasing rate of unemployment.[30]
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