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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.
John S. Adams,
Neil C. Gustafson
President, Anticipatory Management, Inc., Minneapolis.
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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 and Ontario to the north, by Lake Superior and the state of Wisconsin to the east, and by the states of Iowa to the south ...(100 of 8582 words)

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