Minnesota is the 12th most extensive and the 21st most populous of the U.S. States. Nearly 60% of it's residents live in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, the center of transportation, business, industry, education, and government and home to an internationally known arts community.
The remainder of the state consists of western prairies now given over to intensive agriculture; deciduous forests in the southeast, now cleared, farmed and settled; and the less populated North Woods, used for mining, forestry, and recreation.
Besides having a great football team like the Minnesota Vikings and many other things to be proud of, Minnesota has 90,000 miles of shoreline, more than California, Florida and Hawaii combined!
This is mainly due to all the rivers and lakes the state possesses.

