Shiga Prefecture
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Shiga Prefecture is an inland prefecture of Japan in the Kansai region of Honshu. Shiga Prefecture has a population of 1,398,972 as of 1 February 2025 and has a geographic area of 4,017 km2. Shiga Pre
The floating pavilion of Mangetsu-ji on the shores of Lake Biwa, the largest freshwater lake in Japan, located in Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture
Lake Biwa in Shiga Prefecture viewed from space
Ōtsu City's prefectural government building
Merchant mansions in Omihachiman
Michigan
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Michigan is a peninsular state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, Indiana and
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Père Marquette and the Indians (1869), by Wilhelm Lamprecht
Fort Michilimackinac at the Straits of Mackinac
Treaty of Paris, by Benjamin West (1783), an unfinished painting of the American diplomatic negotiators of the Treaty of Paris which brought official conclusion to the Revolutionary War and gave possession of Michigan and other territory to the new United States
Sailors of the Michigan Naval Militia standing at attention during a parade in the 1920s, following World War I