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State of the northern midwest USA; nickname
North Star or Gopher State area 218,700 sq
km/84,418 sq mi capital St Paul towns
Minneapolis, Duluth, Bloomington, Rochester
features sources of the Red, St Lawrence, and
Mississippi rivers; Minnehaha Falls at
Minneapolis; Mayo Clinic at Rochester
products cereals, potatoes, livestock,
pulpwood, iron ore (60% of US output), farm
and other machinery population (1987)
4,246,000 famous people F Scott Fitzgerald,
Sinclair Lewis, William and Charles Mayo
history the first Europeans to explore were
French fur traders in the 17th century; part
was ceded to Britain 1763, and part passed to
the USA under the Louisiana Purchase 1803; it
became a territory 1849 and a state 1858.