Minnesota is named for the Minnesota River, which took its name from the Dakota word for 'cloudy water.'
明尼苏达州的名字来源于明尼苏达河,从达科他语“浑水”中得名。
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When I was growing up, you could drive out into the country or along one of Minnesota's rivers and see the beautiful orange and yellow of the trees as the leaves changed or turned colors.
The Minnesota River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately 332 miles (534km) long, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It drains a watershed of nearly 17,000 square miles (44,000km), 14,751 square miles (38,200km) in Minnesota and about 2,000sqmi (5,200km) in South Dakota and Iowa.