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Indiana is a state in the NorthCentral and Great Lakes Region of the United States. On December 11, 1816 Indiana became the 19th state of the United States...

The Largest Metropolitan Areas (By County) in Indiana:

          Anderson: Madison

          Bloomington: Greene, Monroe, Owen

          Chicago - Naperville - Michigan City
          (Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin): Lake, Jasper, LaPorte,
          Newton, Porter

          Cincinnati - Middletown (Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana):
          Dearborn, Franklin, Ohio

          Evansville (Indiana, Kentucky): Gibson, Posey,
          Vanderburgh, Warrick

          Fort Wayne: Allen, Wells, Whitley

          Indianapolis - Carmel: Boone, Hamilton, Hancock,
          Hendricks, Johnson, Madison, Marion, Morgan,
          Shelby

          Kokomo: Howard, Tipton

          Lafayette: Tippecanoe                                 

          Louisville - Jefferson County (Kentucky, Indiana): Clark,
          Floyd, Harrison, Scott, Washington

          Muncie: Delaware

          South Bend - Elkhart - Mishawaka: Elkhart, St. Joseph

          Terre Haute: Vigo

Iowa is a state located in the NorthCentral section and Midwestern part of the United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration...

The Largest Metropolitan Areas (By County) in Iowa:

          Cedar Rapids: Benton, Jones, Linn

          Davenport - Moline - Rock Island (Iowa, Illinois): Scott

          Des Moines: Dallas, Guthrie, Madison, Polk, Warren

          Iowa City: Johnson, Washington

          Sioux City (Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota): Woodbury

          Waterloo - Cedar Falls: Black, Bremer, Grundy

Kansas is a state located in the NorthCentral section and the Midwestern part of the United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area...

The Largest Metropolitan Areas (By County) ii Kansas:

          Kansas City (Missouri, Kansas): Franklin, Johnson,
          Leavenworth, Linn, Miami, Wyandotte

          Manhattan: Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley

          St. Joseph (Missouri, Kansas): Doniphan

          Topeka: Jackson, Jefferson, Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee

          Wichita: Butler, Harvey, Sedgwick, Sumner

Michigan is a state located in the Northcentral section of the United States. It is also part Great Lakes Region. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"...

The Largest Metropolitan Areas (By County) in Michigan:

          Ann Arbor: Washtenaw

          Detroit - Warren - Livonia: Lapeer, Livingston, Macomb,
          Oakland, St. Clair, Wayne

          Flint: Genesee

          Grand Rapids - Wyoming: Barry, Ionia, Kent, Newaygo

          Lansing - East Lansing: Eaton, Clinton, Ingham

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the NorthCentral section United States. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state on May 11, 1858...

The Largest Metropolitan Areas (By County) in Minnesota:

          Duluth - Superior (Minnesota, Wisconsin): Saint Louis

          Fargo - Moorhead (North Dakota, Minnesota): Clay

          Grand Forks (North Dakota, Minnesota): Polk

          Mankato - North Mankato: Blue Earth, Nicollet

          Minneapolis - Saint Paul: Pierce, St. Croix

          Rochester: Olmsted

          St. Cloud: Benton, Sherburne, Stearns

Missouri (nickname The Show Me State) is a state located in the NorthCentral section of the United States. It is bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska...

The Largest Metropolitan Areas (By County) in Missouri:

          Columbia: Boone, Howard

          Fayetteville - Springfield - Rogers (Arkansas, Missouri):
          McDonald

          St. Louis - St. Charles - Farmington (Missouri, Illinois):
          Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln, St. Charles, St. Louis City,
          St. Louis, St. Francois, Warren, Washington

          Jefferson City: Cole, Callaway, Moniteau, Osage

          Joplin: Jasper, Newton

          Kansas City (Missouri, Kansas): Bates, Caldwell, Cass,
          Clay, Clinton, Jackson, Lafayette, Platte, Ray

          Springfield: Christian, Dallas, Greene, Polk, Webster

          St. Joseph (Missouri, Kansas): Andrew, Buchanan, DeKalb

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S., it is the 7th‑most populous with nearly 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more...

The Largest Metropolitan Areas (By County) in Ohio:

          Canton - Massillon: Carroll, Stark

          Cincinnati - Middletown (Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana): Brown,
          Butler, Clermont, Hamilton, Warren

          Cleveland - Elyria - Mentor: Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga,
          Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage, Summit

          Columbus: Delaware, Fairfield, Franklin, Madison, Morrow

          Dayton: Greene, Miami, Montgomery, Preble

          Huntington - Ashland (West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio):
          Lawrence

          Parkersburg - Marietta - Viena (West Virginia, Ohio):
          Washington

          Toledo: Fulton, Lucas, Ottawa, Wood

          Weirton - Steubenville (West Virginia, Ohio): Jefferson

          Wheeling (West Virginia, Ohio): Belmont

          Youngstown - Warren - Boardman (Ohio, Pennsylvania):
          Mahoning, Trumbull