1. Largest city in Minnesota; located in southeastern Minnesota on the Mississippi river; one of the Twin Cities.
2. City in Kansas (USA); zip code 67467.
City in Minnesota, US, forming with St Paul the Twin Cities area; metropolitan area 2,464,100. It is at the head of navigation of the Mississippi River. Industries include food processing and the manufacture of machinery, electrical and electronic equipment, precision instruments, transport machinery, and metal and paper products.
The powerful Cray computers are built here, used for long-range weather forecasting, spacecraft design, and code-breaking. Shopping areas of the city center are glass-covered against the difficult climate; there is an arts institute, a symphony orchestra, the University of Minnesota, and Tyrone Guthrie theater. Minneapolis was incorporated as a village 1855.