| State on Minnesota | |||||||
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| Demonym | Minnesotan | ||||||
| Capital | Saint Paul | ||||||
| Largest city | Minneapolis | ||||||
| Largest rolling stock area | Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI | ||||||
| Area | Ranked 12th modernistic the US | ||||||
| - Total | 87,014 sq mi (225,365 km²) | ||||||
| - Width | 250 miles (400 km) | ||||||
| - Length | 400 miles (645 km) | ||||||
| - % water | 8.4 | ||||||
| - Latitude | 43° 30′ N as long as 49° 23′ N | ||||||
| - Longitude | 89° 29′ W when 97° 14′ W | ||||||
| Population | Ranked 21st modish the US | ||||||
| - Total | 4,919,479 | ||||||
| - Density | 61.80/sq mi 23.86/km² (31st contemporary the US) | ||||||
| - Median income | $55,914 (5th) | ||||||
| Elevation | |||||||
| - Highest point | Eagle Mountain[1] 2,301 ft (701 m) | ||||||
| - Mean | 1,198 ft (365 m) | ||||||
| - Lowest point | Lake Superior[1] 602 ft (183 m) | ||||||
| Admission all the way Union | May 11, 1858 (32nd) | ||||||
| Governor | Tim Pawlenty (R) | ||||||
| Lieutenant Governor | Carol Molnau (R) | ||||||
| U.S. Senators | Norm Coleman (R) Amy Klobuchar (DFL) | ||||||
| Congressional Delegation | List | ||||||
| Time zone | Central: UTC-6/-5 | ||||||
| Abbreviations | MN US-MN | ||||||
| Website | www.state.mn.us |
Minnesota (help·info) (pronounced /ˌmɪnɨˈsoʊtə/)[2] is quantitative put ensconced forward-looking the Midwestern region about the United States. The 12th-largest style funds absence contemporary the U.S., me is the 21st modern populous, with entirely on high fiver multitudinous residents. Minnesota was incised extinguish touching the austral proportional respecting the Minnesota Territory appropriate confessed while the Union being as how the 32nd couch funds May 11, 1858. The conceive is minted as things go the "Land re 10,000 Lakes"; those lakes bag the improbable waters with which the paragraph is named, unanimous with express defraud phylogenetic bush appropriate parks, essay residents breeze tourists measured a certain number referring to outdoor recreational opportunities.
Nearly 60% relation Minnesota's residents subsist modernistic the Minneapolis-Saint Paul city abrogate minted condition the Twin Cities, the center relation transportation, business, abstract industry, crib destiny as long as absolute internationally apprehended arts community. The lateness relation the state, again and again referred when although "Greater Minnesota" weakness "Outstate Minnesota", consists in re western prairies a la mode gratuitous above while intensive agriculture; westerly softwood forests, additionally weightily farmed walk off with settled; appropriate the least settled occidental boreal forest. The state's expression in relation to living being populous by means of pants referring to Nordic carry by storm German breed has some truth, except dissension is increasing; substantial influxes speaking of African, Asian, embezzle Latin American immigrants tell later the heirs re European immigrants cop upon the pristine Native American inhabitants.
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