Mankato

Mankato is a city in , USA, that exudes a college presence with several centers of higher learning, including Minnesota State University. A somewhat colorful community, it was home to Sinclair Lewis and the literary characters Betsy and Tacy, and such public figures as Ron Johnson and Mike Lindell, though his pillow store is no longer there.
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  • Type: City with 39,300 residents
  • Description: city in Blue Earth County, Minnesota, USA
  • Also known as: City of Mankato”, “Mankato, Minnesota”, and “Mankato, MN
  • Postal codes: 56001 and 56002

Places in the Area

Nearby places include North Mankato and Skyline.

Town
is a city in and Counties, Minnesota, United States. The population was 14,275 at the 2020 census. is situated on the north bank of the Minnesota River, across from the larger city of Mankato.

Village
is a city in , , United States. The population was 288 at the 2020 census. It is adjacent to the city of Mankato and is part of the Mankato- Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Mankato

Latitude
44.1659° or 44° 9′ 57″ north
Longitude
-94.0028° or 94° 0′ 10″ west
Population
39,300
Elevation
830 feet (253 metres)
IATA airport code
MKT
United Nations Location Code
US MKT
Open location code
86P75X8W+8V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151366161
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5036420
Wiki­data ID
Q913243
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Mankato” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: مانكاتو
  • Arabic: مانكيتو
  • Basque: Mankato
  • Belarusian: Манката
  • Breton: Mankato
  • Catalan: Mankato
  • Cebuano: Mankato (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, Minnesota)
  • Cebuano: Mankato
  • Chechen: Манкейто
  • Chinese: Mankato
  • Chinese: 明尼苏达州曼卡多
  • Chinese: 明尼蘇達州曼卡多
  • Chinese: 曼凱托 (明尼蘇達州)
  • Chinese: 曼凱托
  • Chinese: 曼卡托
  • Czech: Mankato
  • Dagbani: Mankato
  • Danish: Mankato
  • Dutch: Mankato
  • Egyptian Arabic: مانكاتو
  • Finnish: Mankato
  • French: Mankato
  • German: Mankato
  • Gilaki: مانکاتو
  • Haitian: Mankato, Minnesota
  • Haitian: Mankato
  • Hebrew: מנקטו
  • Hungarian: Mankato
  • Ido: Mankato, Minnesota
  • Ido: Mankato
  • Indonesian: Mankato, Minnesota
  • Indonesian: Mankato
  • Irish: Mankato
  • Italian: Mankato
  • Japanese: マンケート
  • Japanese: マンケイト
  • Kazakh: Mankato
  • Kazakh: Манкато
  • Kazakh: Манкейто
  • Kazakh: مانكاتو
  • Kirghiz: Манкато
  • Korean: 맨카토
  • Korean: 맨케이토
  • Ladin: Mankato
  • Latin: Mankato
  • Malagasy: Mankato, Minnesota
  • Malagasy: Mankato
  • Marathi: मॅन्कॅटो
  • Mazanderani: منکیتو
  • Min Nan Chinese: Mankato
  • Moksha: Манкэйто
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Mankato
  • Norwegian: Mankato
  • Persian: منکیتو، مینه سوتا
  • Persian: منکیتو، مینه‌سوتا
  • Persian: منکیتو
  • Polish: Mankato
  • Portuguese: Mankato
  • Russian: Манкато
  • Russian: Манкейто
  • Serbian: Манкејто
  • Serbo-Croatian: Mankato, Minnesota
  • Serbo-Croatian: Mankato
  • Slovak: Mankato
  • Slovenian: Mankato
  • South Azerbaijani: منکیتو، مینه‌سوتا
  • Spanish: Mankato (Minnesota)
  • Spanish: Mankato
  • Swedish: Mankato, Minnesota
  • Swedish: Mankato
  • Tatar: Манкейто (Миннесота)
  • Tatar: Манкейто
  • Turkish: Mankato, Minnesota
  • Turkish: Mankato
  • Ukrainian: Манкейто
  • Urdu: مینکیٹو، مینیسوٹا
  • Urdu: مینکیٹو
  • Uzbek: Mankato
  • Uzbek: Манкато
  • Vietnamese: Mankato, Minnesota
  • Vietnamese: Mankato
  • Volapük: Mankato
  • Waray (Philippines): Mankato, Minnesota
  • Waray (Philippines): Mankato
  • Welsh: Mankato, Minnesota‎

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