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    Minnesota is located in the Midwestern United States and is known as the Land of 10,000 Lakes. The word Minnesota comes from the Dakota language and means "sky-tinted water." It has over 16 cities including Minneapolis and Saint Paul. The population in 2010 was over 5 million, with the largest ancestries being German, Scandinavian, Irish, and English. Minnesota has a strong health system led by the University of Minnesota Medical School and Mayo Clinic in Rochester, and rates highly in health outcomes.

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    Minnesota is located in the Midwestern United States and is known as the Land of 10,000 Lakes. The word Minnesota comes from the Dakota language and means "sky-tinted water." It has over 16 cities including Minneapolis and Saint Paul. The population in 2010 was over 5 million, with the largest ancestries being German, Scandinavian, Irish, and English. Minnesota has a strong health system led by the University of Minnesota Medical School and Mayo Clinic in Rochester, and rates highly in health outcomes.

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    Minnesota: The USA state

    located in the Midwestern United States. twelfth largest state of the U.S. also known as the Land of 10,000 Lakes. word Minnesota comes from the Dakota(language) name for the Minnesota River: Mnisota. The root mni (also spelled mini or minne) means, "water". Mnisota can be translated as sky-tinted water or somewhat clouded water. Many locations in the state have similar names, such as Minnehaha Falls ("waterfall"), Minneiska ("white water"), Minneota ("much water"), Minnetonka ("big water"), Minnetrista ("crooked water"), and Minneapolis, which is a combination of mni and polis, the Greek word for "city".
    [Minnesota State". Minnesota Historical Society. http://mnplaces.mnhs.org/upham/otheritem.cfm? PlaceNameID=2007&BookCodeID=67&County=0&SendingPage=Result s.cfm. Retrieved 2008-04-26. "Minnehaha Creek". Minnesota Historical Society. http://mnplaces.mnhs.org/upham/Waterway.cfm? PlaceNameID=2002&BookCodeID=9&County=27&SendingPage=Result s.cfm. Retrieved 2008-04-26]

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    The state has sixteen cities:In descending order of size they are Minneapolis, Saint Paul, Rochester, Duluth, Bloomington, Brooklyn Park, Plymouth, Saint Cloud, Eagan, Woodbury, Maple Grove, Coon Rapids, Eden Prairie, Burnsville, Blaine and Lakeville As of 2010, the state's population was 5,303,925 according to the U.S. Census Bureau Ancestry The principal ancestries of Minnesota's residents in 2010 has been surveyed to be the following: 37.9% German 32.1% Scandinavian (16.8% Norwegian, 9.5% Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Icelandic, and Faroese) 11.7% Irish 6.3% English 5.1% Polish 4.2% French 3.7% Czech

    Health system in Minnesota is headed by two institutions with international reputations:


    University of Minnesota Medical School Mayo Clinic based in Rochester

    Mayo and the University are partners in the Minnesota Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics, a state-funded program that conducts research into cancer, Alzheimer's disease, heart health, obesity, and other areas. Minnesotans have low rates of premature death, infant mortality, cardiovascular disease, and occupational fatalities, long life expectancies, and a high rate of health insurance. These and other measures have led two groups to rank Minnesota as the healthiest state in the nation

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