By region

Region		Population Sort descending
Northwest	List counties Beltrami Clearwater Hubbard Kittson Lake of the Woods Mahnomen Marshall Norman Pennington Polk Red Lake Roseau	169,408
West Central	List counties Becker Clay Douglas Grant Otter Tail Pope Stevens Traverse Wilkin	236,507
Southwest	List counties Big Stone Chippewa Cottonwood Jackson Kandiyohi Lac qui Parle Lincoln Lyon McLeod Meeker Murray Nobles Pipestone Redwood Renville Rock Swift Yellow Medicine	279,912
Northland	List counties Aitkin Carlton Cook Itasca Koochiching Lake St. Louis	325,716
Southern	List counties Blue Earth Brown Dodge Faribault Fillmore Freeborn Goodhue Houston Le Sueur Martin Mower Nicollet Olmsted Rice Sibley Steele Wabasha Waseca Watonwan Winona	755,007
Central	List counties Benton Cass Chisago Crow Wing Isanti Kanabec Mille Lacs Morrison Pine Sherburne Stearns Todd Wadena Wright	776,840
Twin Cities	List counties Anoka Carver Dakota Hennepin Ramsey Scott Washington	3,163,104