MNMinnesota
Nobody has planted a flag here. It has been available since the map opened.
Claim it for
$15
The place
Joined 1858 · 32nd state · Central time
Minnesota is the top of the country, Scandinavian and Somali and Hmong, a state with a genuine civic streak and winters that test it. It has eleven thousand lakes and rounds down on the plates. The Twin Cities support a theatre and music scene far larger than the population explains, which is what happens when a place spends five months indoors. Go for the Boundary Waters, a million acres of lakes with no motors allowed, and the North Shore of Superior in October.
Has 11,842 lakes, and rounds down on the licence plates.
Eat
The Juicy Lucy
Drink
Surly Brewing
Listen
Prince
Bird
Common loon
Flower
Pink-and-white lady's slipper
Tree
Red pine
Grows
Corn, Soybeans, Sugar beets
National parks
- Voyageurs
The actual state · 2025
- Population
- 5,830,405
- Land area
- 79,632 mi²
- GDP per head
- $91,154
- Median household
- $87,120
- Joined
- Joined 1858
- Civil War
- Union
Largest cities
- 1Minneapolis429K
- 2St. Paul307K
- 3Rochester124K
- 4Bloomington88K
- 5Duluth88K
Race
- White79.8%
- Black8.3%
- Asian5.9%
Hispanic or Latino7.2%
Counted across all races, so it overlaps the figures above.
No history yet
This one is still on the board. $15 and it is yours, and then it is somebody else's problem to take it back.