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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] Minnesota is divided into 87 counties and contains 853 incorporated cities, with populations ranging from 425,115 (Minneapolis) to 12 in ...
When Minnesota was organized as a state, 57 of the present 87 counties were established. The last county to be created was Lake of the Woods County in 1923. [2] The names of many of the counties allude to the long history of exploration. Over ten counties are named for Native American groups residing in parts of what is now Minnesota.
Eighty-four of the state's 87 counties are divided into towns, which number 1,784 in the state as of 2012 and are equivalent to the civil townships in several other states; the terms "town" and "township" are used interchangeably in Minnesota. [3] The three counties lacking town government are Koochiching and Lake of the Woods, where the survey ...
The U.S. state of Minnesota is divided into 1,806 townships in 87 counties ... List of cities in Minnesota;
The following is a list of the 3,143 counties and county-equivalents in the 50 states and District of Columbia sorted by U.S. state, plus an additional 100 county-equivalents in the U.S. territories sorted by territory.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Cities in Minnesota. It includes cities that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cities in Minnesota by county .
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 main article for this category is List of cities in Minnesota; Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cities in Minnesota; See also Minnesota and categories Census-designated places in Minnesota, Unincorporated communities in Minnesota