Anoka County
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county in Minnesota, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Minnesota
- Founded
- May 23, 1857
- Named after
- City of Anoka
- Seat
- Anoka
- Largest city
- Blaine
- Total
- 446 sq mi (1,160 km )
- Land
- 423 sq mi (1,100 km )
- Water
- 23 sq mi (60 km ) 5.2%
- Estimate 2025
- 381,605
- Density
- 862/sq mi (333/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional districts
- 3rd , 5th , 6th
- Website
- www .anokacountymn .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Anoka
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Minnesota
- Contains
- Ramsey
- Capital
- Anoka
- Population
- 363887
- Area
- 1156
- Shares border with
- Ramsey County
- Official website
- www.co.anoka.mn.us
- Image
- Anoka County Courthouse Anoka Minnesota.jpg
- Households
- 129308
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- Commons category
- Anoka County, Minnesota
- native label
- Anoka County
- topic's main category
- Category:Anoka County, Minnesota
- inception
- 1857-05-23
- water as percent of area
- 5.2
- per capita income
- 37804
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Anoka County, Minnesota
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Encyclopedic overview
Anoka County (/əˈnoʊkə/ ə-NOH-kə) is the fourth-most populous county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, its population was 363,887. The county seat and namesake of the county is the city of Anoka, which is derived from the Dakota word anoka, meaning "on (or from) both sides", referring to its location on both banks of the Rum River. The county's largest city is Blaine, the tenth-largest city in Minnesota and sixth-largest Twin Cities suburb.
Anoka County comprises the north portion of the Minneapolis–Saint Paul statistical area, the state's largest metropolitan area and the 16th-largest in the United States, with about 3.64 million residents.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Anoka County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.