Middle West, Midwest - the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America)

American state - one of the 50 states of the United States

Bloomington - a university town in south central Indiana

Evansville - a city in southwestern Indiana on the Ohio River

Fort Wayne - a city in northeastern Indiana

Gary - a city in northwest Indiana on Lake Michigan; steel production

capital of Indiana, Indianapolis - the capital and largest city of Indiana; a major commerical center in the country's heartland; site of an annual 500-mile automobile race

Lafayette - a university town in west central Indiana on the Wabash River

Muncie - a town in east central Indiana

South Bend - a city in northern Indiana

Wabash, Wabash River - a tributary of the Ohio River that rises in western Ohio and flows southwestward across Indiana