Minnesota

The North Star State

Tourism is a major revenue producer in Minnesota, with arts, fishing, hunting, water sports, and winter sports bringing in millions of visitors each year. Minneapolis is the trade center of the Midwest, and the headquarters of the world's largest super-computer and grain distributor. St. Paul is the nation's biggest publisher of calendars and law books. These �twin cities� are the nation's third-largest trucking center. Duluth has the nation's largest inland harbor and now handles a fair amount of foreign trade. Rochester is home to the Mayo Clinic, a world-famous medical center.

The state is rich in natural resources. A few square miles of land in the produces more than 75% of the nation's iron ore. The state's farms rank high in yields of corn, wheat, rye, alfalfa, and sugar beets. Other leading farm products include butter, eggs, milk, potatoes, green peas, barley, soybeans, oats, and livestock. Minnesota's factories produce nonelectrical machinery, fabricated metals, flour-mill products, plastics, electronic computers, scientific instruments, and processed foods. The state is also a leader in the printing and paper-products industries.
Popular attractions are the St. Paul Winter Carnival; the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, the Institute of Arts, Minnehaha Park, in Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Voyageurs National Park, the Minnesota Zoological Gardens; and the state's more than 10,000 lakes.

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Quick Facts

Population: close to 5 million
Size: 86,943 square miles
Per Capita Personal Income: $41,034 as of 2007
Capital: St. Paul

Professional Sports Teams

Football: Minnesota Vikings

Basketball: Minnesota Timberwolves
Basketball (Women's): Minnesota Lynx

Baseball: Minnesota Twins

Hockey: Minnesota Wild

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That �L'Etoile du Nord� or �The Star of North� is the state motto of Minnesota. The �North Star State� has given people a sense of direction over the course of time.

That Minnesota is known on its license plates as the �Land of 10,000 Lakes,� but Minnesota actually has 12,000 lakes?

That Water Skiing was "invented" in 1922 on Lake Pepin, in Minnesota?

That Minnesota has 90,000 miles of shoreline, more than California, Florida and Hawaii combined.

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