Minnesota

- Minnesota is a state located in the Midwestern United States.
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.