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The West North Central States form one of the nine geographic divisions within the United States that are officially recognized by that country's census bureau. Seven states comprise the division: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota, and it makes up the western half of the United States Census Bureau's larger region of the Midwest, the eastern half of which consists of the East North Central States of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. The Mississippi River marks the bulk of the boundary between these two divisions.
Where the East North Central States are seen as being synonymous (though not absolutely coterminous) with the Rust Belt by the vast majority of Americans, the West North Central States are regarded as constituting the core of the nation's "Farm Belt." Almost all of the territory contained within the West North Central division falls into what Joel Garreau called The Breadbasket in his 1981 book The Nine Nations of North America, and what James Patterson and Peter Kim labelled the Granary in their similarly-themed work The Day America Told The Truth (the only exception being southern Missouri, placed in Dixie by Garreau and Old Dixie by Patterson and Kim). Another name popularly applied to the division is the "Agricultural Heartland," or simply the "Heartland."
Beginning in the early 1990s, the West North Central division has consistently had the lowest unemployment rate in the United States (especially in its many college towns), and has also been noted for its plentiful supply of affordable housing.

Demographics

As of 2000, the West North Central States had a combined population of 19,237,739. This number was estimated to increase 3.0% to 19,815,497 by 2005. The West North Central region covers of land, and has an average population density of 37.88 people per square mile. States in the West North Central Region>

State	2005 est.	Land area	Density
Iowa	2,926,324 (3rd)	55,869 (7th)	52.38 (3rd)
Kansas	2,744,687 (4th)	81,815 (1st)	32.86 (4th)
Minnesota	5,132,799 (2nd)	79,610 (2nd)	61.79 (2nd)
Missouri	5,800,310 (1st)	68,886 (6th)	81.22 (1st)
Nebraska	1,758,757 (5th)	76,872 (3rd)	22.26 (5th)
North Dakota	636,677 (7th)	68,976 (5th)	9.31 (7th)
South Dakota	775,933 (6th)	75,886 (4th)	9.95 (6th)

Largest Cities in the West North Central Region>

	City	2000 Pop.
1	Kansas City, Missouri	441,545
2	Omaha, Nebraska	390,007
3	Minneapolis, Minnesota	382,618
4	St. Louis, Missouri	348,189
5	Wichita, Kansas	344,284
6	St. Paul, Minnesota	287,151
7	Lincoln, Nebraska	225,581
8	Des Moines, Iowa	198,682
9	Springfield, Missouri	151,580
10	Sioux Falls, South Dakota	151,300
11	Overland Park, Kansas	149,080
12	Kansas City, Kansas	146,866
13	Topeka, Kansas	122,377
14	Cedar Rapids, Iowa	120,758
15	Independence, Missouri	113,288
16	Davenport, Iowa	98,359
17	Olathe, Kansas	92,962
18	Fargo, North Dakota	90,599
19	Duluth, Minnesota	86,918
20	Rochester, Minnesota	85,806
21	Bloomington, Minnesota	85,172
22	Sioux City, Iowa	85,013
23	Columbia, Missouri	84,351
24	Lawrence, Kansas	80,098
25	St. Joseph, Missouri	73,990
26	Lee's Summit, Missouri	70,700
27	Waterloo, Iowa	68,747
28	Brooklyn Park, Minnesota	67,388
29	Plymouth, Minnesota	65,894
30	Eagan, Minnesota	63,557

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