The
Great Lakes region of
North America is a bi-national Canadian-American region that includes portions of the eight
U.S. states of
Illinois,
Indiana,
Michigan,
Minnesota,
New York,
Ohio,
Pennsylvania and
Wisconsin as well as the
Canadian province of
Ontario. The region borders the
Great Lakes and forms a distinctive historical, economic, and cultural identity. A portion of the region also encompasses most of the
Great Lakes Megalopolis, which extends outside the region to St. Louis, Missouri.