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The entire area south of downtown is widely called South Minneapolis. The westerly portion surrounding the city's Chain of Lakes is loosely labeled Southwest Minneapolis , bounded on the east by I-35W and on the north by 36th St W, which extends west from Bde Maka Ska to the city limits.
The Minneapolis–St. Paul, MN–WI Combined Statistical Area is made up of 19 counties in Minnesota and two counties in Wisconsin. The statistical area includes two metropolitan areas and four micropolitan areas. As of the 2010 census, the CSA had a population of 3,682,928 (though a July 1, 2012 estimate placed it at 3,691,918).
Minneapolis's opera companies include Minnesota Opera, [348] [q] the Gilbert & Sullivan Very Light Opera Company, [349] and Really Spicy Opera. [350] Singer and multi-instrumentalist Prince was a child prodigy [351] who was born in Minneapolis and lived in the area for most of his life. [352]
There are 13 lakes of at least five acres (two hectares) [a] within the borders of Minneapolis in the U.S. state of Minnesota. Of these, Bde Maka Ska is the largest and deepest, covering 421 acres (170.37 ha) with a maximum depth of 89.9 feet (27.4 m).
The Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area comprises eleven Minnesota counties centered on Minneapolis, the state's largest city, and adjoining Saint Paul, the capital; plus two Wisconsin counties. About three out of every five residents of the state live in this conurbation. Greater Minnesota is less urbanized than the Twin Cities.
The area now occupied by the Twin Cities generally consisted of a 155 foot (47 m) thick layer of St. Peter Sandstone, under a 16 foot (5 m) thick layer of shale, under a 35 foot (11 m) thick layer of Platteville limestone. [4] These layers were the result of an Ordovician Period sea which covered east-central Minnesota 500 million years ago. [4]
The U.S. State of Minnesota currently has 34 statistical areas that have been delineated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated six combined statistical areas, nine metropolitan statistical areas, and 19 micropolitan statistical areas in Minnesota. [1]
Minnesota was divided into a south-eastern area including the Twin-Cities with area code 612 and the rest of the state in the south-west, north, and north-east with area code 218. [2] In 1954, the southern half of 612 was designated a separate numbering plan area with area code 507 as the third area code for the state.