General Information
Nickname: North Star State
State bird: Common Loon
State flower: Showy Pink and White Lady’s Slipper
Capital: St Paul
Date of admission to the Union: 11th May 1858
Population: 4,919,479 (2000)
Population density: 21.8/sq km
2000 total overseas arrivals/US ranking: 364,000/20
Time: Central (GMT - 6). Daylight Saving Time is observed.
The State: Minnesota, the second northernmost State in the USA (after Alaska), is one of the nation’s leading outdoors tourist destinations, with 68 State parks, 55 State forests and more than 12,000 lakes. The State borders Canada, the upper Midwest States and Lake Superior, the largest freshwater lake in the world.
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