Geography of Minnesota "The Cities"), and "Outstate" or "Greater Minnesota". The Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area comprises eleven Minnesota counties centered around Minneapolis, the state's largest city, and adjoining Saint Paul, the capital; plus two Wisconsin counties. About three out of every five residents of the state live in this conurbation. Greater Minnesota is less urbanized than the Twin Cities. It is also geographically more diverse, with farmlands to the south and west, lake country in central Minnesota, and forests in the northern part of the state. Approximately 40% of Minnesotans live in Greater Minnesota. Its major population centers include Duluth, Rochester, Moorhead, St.
Minnesota State Highway 28 upon crossing the state line. MN 28 parallels MN 27 throughout its route until MN 27 enters Wheaton, Minnesota and then follows Mud Lake and Lake Traverse, heading South/Southwest to Browns Valley, Minnesota where it connects with MN 28. The Sam Brown Memorial State Wayside Park is located on MN 28 in Traverse County at Browns Valley. The highway overlaps MN 27 for the last of its route, until its terminus in Little Falls at the former alignment of US 10, which is now a city street. MN 28 is legally defined as Constitutional Route 28 in the Minnesota Statutes.