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Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis is a city in in Minnesota.
Minneapolis is the largest city in Minnesota and the county seat of Hennepin County. It adjoins Saint Paul, the state's capital and second-largest city. Together they form the core of the Twin Cities metropolitan area, the 15th-largest urban agglomeration in the country (and roughly 65th-largest in the world), with over 3,000,000 residents. In the 2000 census, the city itself had a total population of 382,618, making it the 47th-largest city in the United States.
People living in Minneapolis are called Minneapolitans.
Minneapolis's economy has been historically based on the adjoining agricultural area, though that has changed as can be seen from the list of companies below:
Target Corp., U.S. Bancorp, Xcel Energy, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, PepsiAmericas Inc., Bemis Co. Inc., The Valspar Corp, Ameriprise Financial, Piper Jaffray, and Fair Isaac Corporation.
The city is in the southeast portion of the state and sits along the Mississippi River. There are also 24 small lakes in the city. The abundance of lakes led Charles Hoag, an early settler and Minneapolis's first schoolmaster, to suggest a name derived from minne, the Dakota word for water, and polis, the Greek word for city. Other names considered at the time were Brooklyn and Albion. The early use of "Brooklyn" for the then-village lives on into the 21st century in the names of two suburbs north of Minneapolis, Brooklyn Park and Brooklyn Center. The city is also known as the "City of Lakes", a phrase that appears on many municipal vehicles and properties. The traditional postal abbreviation for the city's name is Mpls., and much old correspondence can still be found dated from "Mpls., Minn." Once a primary center of the milling industry, Minneapolis is still often known by the appellation Mill City.
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