Minnesota

Minnesota
Minnesota
	State
Kintra	Unitit States
Afore stateheid	Minnesota Territory
Admittit tae the Union	Mey 11, 1858 (32nt)
Lairgest ceety	Minneapolis
Lairgest metro	Minneapolis–Saint Paul
Govrenment
• Govrenor	Tim Walz (DFL)
• Lieutenant Governor	Peggy Flanagan (DFL)
Legislatur	Minnesota Legislatur
• Upper hoose	Senate
• Lawer hoose	Hoose o Representatives
U.S. senators	Amy Klobuchar (DFL); Tina Smith (DFL)
U.S. Hoose delegation	4 Democrats, 4 Republicans (leet)
Population
• Total	5,489,594 (2,015 est)
• Density	26.6/km2 (68.9/sq mi)
• Median hooseaud income	$68730
• Income rank	6t
Leid
Trad. abbreviation	Minn.
Latitude	43° 30′ N tae 49° 23′ N
Longitude	89° 29′ W tae 97° 14′ W

Minnesota (ⁱ/ˌmɪnᵻˈsoʊtə/; locally [ˌmɪnəˈso̞ɾɐ]) is a state in the midwastren an northren regions o the Unitit States. Minnesota wis admittit as the 32nt U.S. state on Mey 11, 1858, creatit frae the eastren hauf o the Minnesota Territory. The state haes a muckle nummer o lochs, an is kent bi the slogan "Land of 10,000 Lakes". Its offeecial motto is L'Étoile du Nord (French: Starn o the North).

Minnesota is the 12t lairgest in aurie an the 22nt maist populous o the U.S. states; nearly 60 percent o its residents live in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan aurie (kent as the "Twin Cities"), the centre o transportation, business, industrie, eddication, an govrenment an hame tae an internaitionally kent airts commonty. The remainder o the state consists o westren prairies nou gien ower tae intensive agricultur; deciduous forests in the sootheast, nou pairtially cleared, fermed an settled; an the less populatit North Woods, uised for minin, forestry, an recreaution.

Minnesota is kent for its progressive poleetical orientation an its heich rate o ceevic pairteecipation an voter turnoot. Til; European settlement, Minnesota wis inhabitit bi the Dakota an Ojibwe/Anishinaabe. In the 19t an early 20t centuries, a muckle nummer o European settlers entered the state that haed mainly emigratit frae Scandinavie an Germany. The state remeens the day a centre o Scandinavian American an German American cultur. In recent decades, immigration frae Asie, the Horn o Africae, the Middle East an Laitin Americae haes braidened its historic demografic an cultural composeetion. Minnesota's staundart o leevin index is amang the heichest in the Unitit States, an the state is an aa amang the best-eddicatit an walthiest in the naition.^[3]