The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the U.S. state of Minnesota:
Minnesota – U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state on May 11, 1858. Known as the Land of 10,000 Lakes, the state's name comes from a Dakota word for "sky-tinted water".
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^Jess Myers, Hockey roots run deep in Minnesota, ESPN.com, February 10, 2004
^"U.S. Census Bureau State & County QuickFacts Minnesota". Archived from the original on 2006-12-02.