The North Star State
- State Site: Official Web Site of the State of Minnesota
- Capital City:
- Capitol: About the Capitol
- Abbreviations:
- Postal: MN
- Traditional: Minn.
- Admission to Union:
- Ancestry / Genealogy:
- Apartments: Minnesota Apartments
- Area:
- Area Codes: Minnesota Area Codes
- Biographies: Notable Minnesotans
- Bird:
- Birth Records: Birth Certificates
- Border States:
- Citizens: Minnesota Citizens
- Climate: Climatology For Minnesota
- Constitution: Minnesota Constitution, 32nd state to enter the Union.
- County Profile: Minnesota Counties
- Courts: Minnesota Judicial Branch
- Current Events: Minnesota News
- Death Records: Death Certificates
- Department of: State Agencies
- Driving: Driver Services
- Economy:
- Services: The most important community, business, and personal services include
private health care, computer programming and data processing, legal services and automobile repair.
Ranking second in the services sector are finance, insurance and real estate industries. Wholesale
(automobiles, farm products, groceries) and retail (discount stores, food stores, restaurants) trade rank
third among the service industries.
- Manufacturing: Computer and electronic products (medical devices, computer
components, communications equipment) are the primary manufactured products of Minnesota. Food
products rank second. Minnesota is a leading meatpacking state and a leading producer of flour, processed
into cake mixes and breakfast cereals. Among the leading milk, butter and cheese production states,
Minnesota is also a top producer of frozen and canned vegetables. The manufacture of machinery (agricultural
machinery, metalworking, heating and cooling, machines for making microchips) ranks third in the
manufacturing sector. Other manufactured products in the state include weapons and ammunition, cans,
stampings, paper products (adhesive tape), printed materials (commercial print shops,
newspaper and book publishers), transportation equipment (automobiles, trucks,
buses), aircraft parts and wood products (plywood).
- Agriculture: Minnesota is a leading state in annual farm income. Livestock and
livestock products account for about half of the state's farm income; crops, the other half. Minnesota's
most valuable livestock products are hogs. Minnesota is a leading hog-producing state. Dairy and beef
cattle are also important sources of income. Minnesota is a leading milk-producing state, most of which
is converted into butter and cheese. Minnesota is also a leading producer of eggs and turkeys. Corn is
the state's most valuable crop followed by soybeans and again, Minnesota is a leading producer. Farmers
also grow hay, sugar beets, wheat, barley, flaxseed and oats. The leading vegetable crops are peas,
potatoes and sweet corn. The leading fruit crops are apples. [Find out more]
- Mining: Most of Minnesota's mining income comes from iron ore. Minnesota leads
the other states in the production of iron ore. Quarries in Minnesota provide high quality granite.
Other mined products are limestone, sand and gravel and peat.
- Fishing: Commercial and recreational fishing contributes to the economy and
the Mississippi river provides buffalo fish, carp, catfish, whitefish and yellow perch while Lake
superior provides lake herring, smelt, walleye and yellow pike.
- Flag:
- Fishing:
- Flower:
- Genealogical Resources:
- Geographic Center: Minnesota Geography
- Governor:
- Highest Point: Eagle Mountain, 2,301 feet above sea level.
- Highway Markers: Minnesota
- History:
- Hunting:
- Judiciary: Minnesota Judicial Branch
- Largest Cities: 10 Largest Cities
- Legislature: Minnesota State Legislature
- Library: Minnesota Library Resources
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- License Plates: Minnesota
- Lottery: Minnesota State Lottery
- Lowest Point: Lake Superior, 602 feet above sea level.
- Maps: Minnesota Maps
- Marriage: Marriage Certificates
- Media:
- Motor Vehicles: Driver & Vehicle Services
- Motto:
- Museums: Minnesota Museums
- National Forests:
- National Parks: National Parks in Minnesota
- Natural Resources: Fertile soil, supporting Minnesota as a leading agricultural state, important
minerals (iron ore, manganese, granite, limestone, sandstone), forests of jack, Norway, aspen, balsam, spruce
and white birch and groves of ash, black walnut, elm, maple and oak are among Minnesota's important natural
resources.
- Newspapers: Minnesota
- Nickname: for Minnesota
- Non-transients: Find A Grave
- Online Services: Online Services
- Origin of State's name: Minnesota
- Political Cartoons: PoliticalCartoons.com
- Population:
- Representatives:
- Road Side America: Minnesota
- Senior Citizens: Minnesota Board on Aging
- Song: Hail! Minnesota
- State Parks: Minnesota State Parks
- State Quarter: Minnesota
- Symbols: Minnesota Symbols
- Tax Forms:
- Topography: State Topography Image: Minnesota
- Travel:
- Tree: Red (or Norway) Pine (Pinus resinosa)
- Unclaimed Funds: Unclaimed Property
- Veteran Affairs: Department of Veterans Affairs
- Vital Records: Health Data Statistics
- Voting: Elections & Voting
- Weather:
- Web Cams: Minnesota Webcams
- Zip Codes:
- Zoos:
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