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Minnesota is a state in the of the USA. Minnesota is commonly referred to as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes"; there are actually around 14,300 bodies of water in the state.
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is a city of about 430,000 people and the largest city in Minnesota. Along with neighboring , it forms the urban core of the region, the third largest metropolitan area in the after and .

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is the capital city and the second largest city of the US state of Minnesota. Along with the slightly larger it forms the urban core of the region, the third largest metropolis in the .

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is a city of about 86,000 people in northern Minnesota. It is one of the most scenic cities in the . has a thriving tourism industry, with antique shops, excellent restaurants, cozy inns, and scenic views of the lake.

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The of Minnesota constitute the political, cultural, and economic capital of the Upper Midwest, and along with the , Milwaukee, and metropolitan areas, the core of the region of the .

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is a region roughly south and west of the region of Minnesota.

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The Northwestern region of Minnesota is where the western prairies, the northern conifer forests, and the eastern hardwood forests converge. It includes Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Cass, Clay, Clearwater, Crow Wing, Douglas, Grant, Hubbard, Kittson, Lake of the…

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The Northeastern region of Minnesota is marked by countless rivers, lakes, and the shore of one Great Lake. It includes Aitkin, Carlton, Cook, Isanti, Itasca, Kanabec, Koochiching, Lake, Mille Lacs, Pine, and St. Louis counties.

Minnesota

Latitude of center
45.9897° or 45° 59′ 23″ north
Longitude of center
-94.6113° or 94° 36′ 41″ west
Population
5,790,000
Elevation
1,204 feet (367 metres)
Abbreviation
“MN”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316967611
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
5037779
Wiki­data ID
Q1527
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Minnesota” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Minnesota”
  • Albanian: “Minnesota”
  • Amharic: “ሚንሶታ”
  • Arabic: “منيسوتا”
  • Arabic: “مينيسوتا”
  • Aragonese: “Minnesota”
  • Armenian: “Մինեսոտա”
  • Arpitan: “Minnesota”
  • Asturian: “Minnesota”
  • Atikamekw: “Minnesota”
  • Aymara: “Minnesota suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Minnesota”
  • Balinese: “Minnesota”
  • Basque: “Minnesota”
  • Bavarian: “Minnesota”
  • Belarusian: “Мінесота”
  • Belarusian: “Мінэсота”
  • Bengali: “মিনেসোটা”
  • Bhojpuri: “मिनेसोटा”
  • Bishnupriya: “মিনেসোটা”
  • Bislama: “Minnesota”
  • Bosnian: “Minnesota”
  • Breton: “Minnesota”
  • Bulgarian: “Минесота”
  • Burmese: “မင်နီဆိုးတားပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Minnesota”
  • Cebuano: “Minnesota”
  • Central Bikol: “Minnesota”
  • Central Kurdish: “مینیسۆتا”
  • Central Kurdish: “مینێسۆتا”
  • Chavacano: “Minnesota”
  • Chechen: “Миннесота”
  • Cherokee: “Minisoda”
  • Cherokee: “ᎻᏂᏐᏓ”
  • Chinese: “Minnesota”
  • Chinese: “明尼苏达州”
  • Chinese: “明尼蘇達州”
  • Chinese: “明州”
  • Chuvash: “Миннесота”
  • Cornish: “Minnesota”
  • Corsican: “Minnesota”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Minnesota”
  • Croatian: “Minnesota”
  • Czech: “Minnesota”
  • Czech: “State of Minnesota”
  • Dagbani: “Minnesota”
  • Danish: “Minnesota”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Minnesota”
  • Dutch: “Minnesota”
  • Dutch: “MN”
  • Eastern Mari: “Миннесота”
  • Eastern Mari: “Миннесото”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مينيسوتا”
  • Esperanto: “Lando de Dek Mil Lagoj”
  • Esperanto: “Minesoto”
  • Esperanto: “MN”
  • Esperanto: “subŝtato Minesoto”
  • Estonian: “Minnesota”
  • Ewe: “Minnesota”
  • Faroese: “Minnesota”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Minnesota”
  • Finnish: “Minnesota”
  • French: “L’Étoile du Nord”
  • French: “Minnesota”
  • Gagauz: “Minnesota”
  • Galician: “Minnesota”
  • Georgian: “მინესოტა”
  • German: “Minnesota”
  • Gothic: “𐌼𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌰𐌹𐍃𐍉𐍄𐌰”
  • Greek: “Μινεσότα”
  • Guarani: “Minesóta”
  • Guarani: “Minnesota”
  • Gujarati: “મિનેસોટા”
  • Haitian: “Minesota”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Minnesota”
  • Hausa: “Minnesota”
  • Hawaiian: “Minekoka”
  • Hebrew: “מיניסוטה”
  • Hebrew: “מינסוטה”
  • Hindi: “मिनेसोटा”
  • Hungarian: “Minnesota”
  • Icelandic: “Minnesota”
  • Ido: “Minnesota”
  • Igbo: “Minésótạ”
  • Iloko: “Minnesota”
  • Inari Sami: “Minnesota”
  • Indonesian: “Minnesota”
  • Interlingua: “Minnesota”
  • Interlingue: “Minnesota”
  • Inuktitut: “ᒦᓃᓲᑖ”
  • Inupiaq: “Minisuuta”
  • Inupiaq: “Minnesota”
  • Irish: “Minnesota”
  • Italian: “Minnesota”
  • Japanese: “ミネソタ”
  • Japanese: “ミネソタ州”
  • Javanese: “Minnesota”
  • Kabiyè: “Minesootaa”
  • Kabyle: “Minnesota”
  • Kalmyk: “Минисөт”
  • Kannada: “ಮಿನ್ನೇಸೋಟ”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Миннесота”
  • Kazakh: “Миннесота”
  • Kirghiz: “Миннесота”
  • Komering: “Minnesota”
  • Korean: “미네소타”
  • Korean: “미네소타주”
  • Kurdish: “Minnesota”
  • Ladin: “Minnesota”
  • Ladino: “Minnesota”
  • Lao: “ມິນເນໂຊຕາ”
  • Latin: “Minnesota”
  • Latvian: “Minesota”
  • Ligurian: “Minnesota”
  • Limburgan: “Minnesota”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Minnesota”
  • Literary Chinese: “明尼蘇達州”
  • Lithuanian: “Minesota”
  • Lombard: “Minnesota”
  • Low German: “Minnesota”
  • Luxembourgish: “Minnesota”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Minnesota”
  • Macedonian: “Минесота”
  • Maithili: “मिनिसोटा”
  • Malagasy: “Minnesota”
  • Malay: “Minnesota”
  • Malayalam: “മിനസോട്ട”
  • Manipuri: “ꯃꯤꯟꯅꯦꯁꯣꯇꯥ”
  • Manx: “Minnesota”
  • Maori: “Menehota”
  • Maori: “Minnesota”
  • Marathi: “मिनेसोटा”
  • Mazanderani: “مینه‌سوتا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Minnesota”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Minnesota”
  • Mingrelian: “მინესოტა”
  • Mongolian: “Миннесота”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “مينيسوطا”
  • Nauru: “Minnesota”
  • Navajo: “Beʼekʼid Łání Hahoodzo”
  • Nepali: “मिनिसोटा”
  • Newari: “मिनेसोता”
  • Northern Frisian: “Minnesota”
  • Northern Luri: “مینه سوتا”
  • Northern Sami: “Minnesota”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Minn.”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Minnesota”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “MN”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Minnesota”
  • Norwegian: “Minnesota”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Minnesòta”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܢܝܣܘܬܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Minnesohta”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Minnesota”
  • Ossetian: “Миннесотæ”
  • Pali: “मिनेसोटा”
  • Pampanga: “Minnesota”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਿਨੇਸੋਟਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Minnesota”
  • Persian: “مینه‌سوتا”
  • Picard: “Minnesota”
  • Piemontese: “Minnesota”
  • Polish: “Minnesota”
  • Portuguese: “Minesota”
  • Portuguese: “Minnesota”
  • Pushto: “مینه سوتا”
  • Quechua: “Minnesota suyu”
  • Romanian: “Minnesota”
  • Romansh: “Minnesota”
  • Russia Buriat: “Миннесота”
  • Russian: “Миннесота”
  • Samogitian: “Mėnesuota”
  • Sanskrit: “मिनेसोटा”
  • Sardinian: “Minnesota”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Minnesota”
  • Scots: “Minnesota”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Minnesota”
  • Serbian: “Минесота”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Minnesota”
  • Sicilian: “Minnesota”
  • Silesian: “Minnesota”
  • Sindhi: “منيسوٽا”
  • Sinhala: “මිනසෝටා”
  • Sinhala: “මින්නෙසොටා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Minnesota”
  • Slovak: “Minnesota”
  • Slovenian: “Minnesota”
  • Somali: “Minnesota”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مینسوتا ایالتی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مینسوتا”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Gopher”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Minnesota”
  • Spanish: “Estado De Minnesota”
  • Spanish: “Minnesota, Estados Unidos”
  • Spanish: “Minnesota”
  • Spanish: “MN”
  • Spanish: “Tierra de 10.000 lagos”
  • Swahili: “Minnesota”
  • Swedish: “Minnesota”
  • Tagalog: “Minnesota”
  • Tajik: “Миннесота”
  • Talysh: “Minnesota”
  • Tamil: “மினசோட்டா”
  • Tatar: “Миннесота”
  • Telugu: “మిన్నసోటా”
  • Thai: “รัฐมินนิโซตา”
  • Tumbuka: “Minnesota”
  • Turkish: “Minn.”
  • Turkish: “Minnesota eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Minnesota, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri”
  • Turkish: “Minnesota”
  • Turkish: “MN”
  • Turkish: “State of Minnesota”
  • Turkish: “US-MN”
  • Uighur: “Latin script article”
  • Uighur: “Minnésota Shitati”
  • Ukrainian: “Міннесота”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Minnesota”
  • Urdu: “مینیسوٹا”
  • Uzbek: “Minnesota”
  • Venetian: “Minnesota”
  • Vietnamese: “Minnesota”
  • Vlaams: “Minnesota”
  • Vlax Romani: “Minnesota”
  • Volapük: “Minnesota”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Minnesota”
  • Welsh: “Minnesota”
  • Western Frisian: “Minnesota”
  • Western Mari: “Миннесота”
  • Western Panjabi: “منسسوٹا”
  • Western Panjabi: “منی سوٹا”
  • Wu Chinese: “明尼苏达州”
  • Xhosa: “IMinasotha”
  • Yakut: “Миннесота”
  • Yiddish: “מינעסאטע”
  • Yoruba: “Minnesota”
  • Yue Chinese: “明尼蘇達州”
  • Zeeuws: “Minnesota”
  • Zhuang: “Minnesota”
  • “ma Minesota”
  • “ma Minisota”
  • “Mėnesuota”
  • “Minnesota”
  • “Minneśòta”
  • “मिनेसोटा”

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