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Map of the United States with Minnesota highlighted. Minnesota is a state situated in the Midwestern United States. According to the 2020 United States census, Minnesota is the 22nd most populous state with 5,706,494 inhabitants but the 14th largest by land area, spanning 79,626.74 square miles (206,232.3 km 2) of land. [1]
Madison – Lutefisk Capital of the World [8] [15] Minneapolis. City of Flour and Sawdust (reported in 1883) [16] City of Lakes [5] [17] Mill City [18] The Mini Apple [5] Murderapolis [19] The Twin Cities (with St. Paul) Montgomery – Kolacky Capital of the World [8] Morris – Motown [20] Mountain Iron – Taconite Capital of the World [21]
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This list does not include place names in the United Kingdom or the United States, or places following spelling conventions of non-English languages.For UK place names, see List of irregularly spelled places in the United Kingdom.
Minnesota (/ ˌ m ɪ n ə ˈ s oʊ t ə / ⓘ MIN-ə-SOH-tə) is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the south, and North Dakota and South Dakota to the west.
Cloquet (/ k l oʊ ˈ k eɪ / ⓘ kloh-KAY) [6] is a city in Carlton County, Minnesota, United States, at the junction of Interstate 35 and Minnesota State Highway 33. Part of the city lies within the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation and serves as one of the reservation's three administrative centers. The population was 12,568 at the 2020 census. [4]
Many surviving World War II honorees were aboard an Honor Flight sent to the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., on May 1, 2010. Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty and the state's First Lady took a personal interest in the Rock County group by being present at the send-off and previously hosting a group of Rock County World War II veterans ...
The Port of Duluth is the world's farthest inland port accessible to oceangoing ships [10] and is the largest and busiest port on the Great Lakes. [11] It is also among the top 20 U.S. ports by tonnage. Common items shipped from Duluth include coal, iron ore, grain, limestone, cement, salt, wood pulp, steel coil, and wind turbine parts.