Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.27 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state on May 11, 1858. Known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes", the state's name comes from a Dakota word for "sky-tinted water".

 

Also known as : North Star State, The Land of 10,000 Lakes, The Gopher State
Capital : Saint Paul
Largest city : Minneapolis
Population : 4 919 479
Abbreviation : MN
Main cities : Minneapolis, St-Paul, Duluth, St-Cloud, Rochester, Moorhead