Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
This list includes notable permanent geographic sections in Minneapolis, such as unofficial neighborhood, commercial districts, residential areas, and other defined places. The list excludes streets, venues, transit stops, trails, government facilities, lakes, parks, and events.
The United States Office of Management and Budget officially designates 15 counties as the "Minneapolis–St. Paul–Bloomington MN–WI Metropolitan Statistical Area". It is the 16th-largest metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. and third-largest metropolitan area in the Midwest , with a population of 3,690,261 at the 2020 census .
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.
Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and the surrounding area are collectively known as the Twin Cities, a metropolitan area with 3.69 million residents. [14] Minneapolis is built on an artesian aquifer on flat terrain and is known for cold, snowy winters and hot, humid summers.
English: The Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area includes 15 counties, of which 13 are in Minnesota and two in Wisconsin Minnesota counties in the Metropolitan council
The area remains as the historic core of the city, although much of that history was demolished in an Urban Renewal act during the late 1950s. The Metropolitan Building, demolished in 1961, is the most lamented loss of the area. The area now boasts some of the city's finest examples of modern architecture.