Minnesota

The word Minnesota comes from the Dakota name for the Minnesota River: Mnisota. The root mni means “water”. Mnisota can be translated as sky-tinted. Native Americans demonstrated the name to early settlers by dropping milk into water and calling it mnisota.
Population: 4,919,479 Number of Counties: 14
118 languages spoken. Top 10 languages spoken:

Minnesota has the highest percentage of Cushite, Finnish, and Miao/Hmong speakers in the United States.