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A street sign named Indiana on a city road in Jeffersonville, Indiana.
Indiana is the 19th state in the union, formed in 1816. Located in the Midwestern region of the United States, it borders Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north and northeast, Ohio to the east, Kentucky to the south and Illinois to the west. Indiana’s name means “Land of the Indians”, or simply “Indian Land”.
A sign along Taylorsville Road, advertising the city of Jeffersontown across the underside of a railroad bridge. Jeffersontown is a home rule-class city in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 26,595 at the 2010 U.S. census. A major suburb of Louisville, Jeffersontown retained its status as independent city when the Louisville Metro government formed in 2003. Louisville is Kentucky’s largest city, with a metro area population of 1,395,855 in 2020.