Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S. it is the twenty-first most populous with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state on May 11 1858. Known as the Land of 10 000 Lakes the state's name comes from a Dakota word for sky-tinted water.
