Minneapolis, MN, is a city located in the US state of Minnesota. It is the county seat of Hennepin County and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States. As of 2015, Minneapolis is estimated to have a population of 413,651 and a metropolitan population of 1,223,371.
The Twin Cities metropolitan area consists of Minneapolis, its neighbor Saint Paul, and suburbs which together contain about 3.5 million people, making it the fifth-largest combined statistical area in the United States.