Hennepin County is the most largely populated county in Minnesota by far, named after French explorer Louis Hennepin. Its county seat is Minneapolis which is also it's most densely and highly populated city; more than one fifth of the entire population of the state are located inside Hennepin County equaling more than 1.2 million of it's over 5 million residents.

It accounts for 606 square miles of land, 8.21% of which is water, equaling approximately 50 square miles. Hennepin County is surrounded on the east by Ramsey County, northeast by Anoka County, Wright County to the northwest, Carver County to the southwest, Scott County to the south and Dakota County to the southeast.

Hennepin County also boasts homes of some of the most highly rated school systems in the nation as well as popular tourist attraction Mall of America, the state baseball team The Minnesota Twins and other various attractions such as the Mill City Museum, Minnesota Institute of Arts (MIA), Walker Art Center, Orchestra Hall and Fort Snelling and its adjacent state park, just to name a few. The Twin Cities as a whole has the second most number of theater seats per capita following only behind the prestigious New York City.

Outside of Hennepin, but located inside closely neighboring communities are also 3 casinos, 2 zoos, a family-themed amusement park as well as countless festivals, fairs, farmers markets, orchards, charter cruises and other tours, museums and exhibits, arboretums, theatres, state and national parks, wineries, and all kinds of other family entertainment in and out of Hennepin. In neighboring sister-city to Minneapolis, St. Paul, are also the state capital, science museum with Omnitheatre, Children's Museum and Minnesota State Fair.

The University of Minnesota also has much of its campus inside Hennepin County and is one of the largest schools in the nation with strong medical, technical and business schools.

Alex Anderson

Hennepin County Realtor

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