Minnesota Saint Paul, in east-central Minnesota along the banks of the Mississippi River, has been Minnesota's capital city since 1849, first as capital of the Territory of Minnesota, and then as the state capital since 1858. Saint Paul is adjacent to Minnesota's most populous city, Minneapolis; they and their suburbs are known collectively as the Twin Cities metropolitan area, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States, and home to about 54 percent of the state's population. The remainder of the state is known as "Greater Minnesota" or pejoratively "Outstate Minnesota". The state has 17 cities with populations above 50,000 (as
Minnesota State Highway 254 defined as Route 254 in the Minnesota Statutes. MN 254 was authorized on July 1, 1949. Originally, it traveled from U.S. Route 16 (US 16) south through Frost to Iowa Highway 322 (renumbered 254 in 1969) at the state line near Rake, Iowa. The route was paved between US 16 and Frost in 1950. The remainder was paved in the mid-1950s. The part of MN 254 south of Frost was removed from statute in 1988 and turned back to Faribault County. It is now marked County Road 17. Minnesota State Highway 254 Minnesota State Highway 254 (MN 254) is a