MI American plate atlas

Michigan

The Great Lakes State

Meet the plate, people, places, and stories behind one of the road-trip game’s fifty-one essential finds.

Michigan license plate
The Michigan plate in the game

Capital

Lansing

State bird

American robin

Joined the Union

January 26, 1837

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A quick trip through time

The Michigan story

Michigan’s two peninsulas grew around the Great Lakes, timber, mining, shipping, and the automobile industry. Detroit transformed global manufacturing and popular music.

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Bumper-sized history

About the plate

Michigan plate designs often spotlight the Great Lakes, the Mackinac Bridge, water-winter wonderlands, or classic color schemes from the state’s motoring past.