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 332 would turn control of the road east of US 53 to the county in exchange for $3.5 million. On May 20, 2011, the law establishing MN 332 was repealed. The repeal will be effective when MnDOT certifies that the unspecified conditions to transfer the route have been satisfied. Minnesota State Highway 332 Minnesota State Highway 332 (MN 332) was a short highway in north-central Minnesota, which ran from its intersection with US Highway 71 / State Highway 11 (US 71 / MN 11), immediately southwest of International Falls, and continued eastbound to its junction with U.S. Highway 53; then the