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Minnesota: flag Seal of Minnesota The loon is the state bird of Minnesota. Minnesota's state flower is the pink-and-white lady's slipper. Minnesota Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's large outdoor sculpture Spoonbridge and Cherry features a giant spoon with a red cherry, set over a pond in Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. Minnesota: Split Rock Lighthouse Shallow, rocky shoreline of Lake Itasca with calm water, scattered stones, and surrounding green trees at the headwaters of the Mississippi River in Itasca State Park, Minnesota. Physical features of Minnesota Minnesota: Rice Lake
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Minnesota

state, United States
Also known as: North Star State
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John S. Adams
Professor of Geography, University of Minnesota. Co-author of Minneapolis-St. Paul: People, Place, and Public Life; The Path of Urban Decline; and others.
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Minnesota, constituent state of the United States of America. It became the 32nd state of the union on May 11, 1858. A small extension of the northern boundary makes Minnesota the most northerly of the 48 conterminous U.S. states. (This peculiar protrusion is the result of a boundary agreement with Great Britain before the area had been carefully surveyed.) Minnesota is one of the north-central states. It is bounded by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba...

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