The first recorded person of European descent to travel through the area that is now Lansing was British fur trader Hugh Heward and his French-Canadian team on April 24, 1790 while canoeing the Grand River. The

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Lansing is the centerpiece of a region of Michigan known as Mid-Michigan or Central Michigan.
According to the

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The city's downtown is dominated by state government buildings, especially the State Capitol; but downtown has also experienced recent growth in new restaurants, retail stores

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Lansing is administered under a mayor–council government, more specifically a strong mayor form in which the mayor is the city's

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The Lansing metropolitan area's major industries are government, education, insurance, healthcare, and automobilemanufacturing. Being the

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Michigan State University, a member of the Big Ten Conference, is known as "the pioneer land grant college", located in neighboring East Lansing. MSU has one of the largest land campuses in the United States and is home to several nationally and internationally

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2020 Census
As of the census of 2020, there were 112,644 people residing in the city. The population density was 2,874.3 per square mile (1,109.7/km ). There were 54,599 housing units at an average density of 1,393.1 per square mile

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