By region

Region Sort ascending		Population
West Central	List counties Becker Clay Douglas Grant Otter Tail Pope Stevens Traverse Wilkin	229,539
Twin Cities	List counties Anoka Carver Dakota Hennepin Ramsey Scott Washington	3,065,147
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	275,843
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	739,132
Northwest	List counties Beltrami Clearwater Hubbard Kittson Lake of the Woods Mahnomen Marshall Norman Pennington Polk Red Lake Roseau	170,798
Northland	List counties Aitkin Carlton Cook Itasca Koochiching Lake St. Louis	324,818
Central	List counties Benton Cass Chisago Crow Wing Isanti Kanabec Mille Lacs Morrison Pine Sherburne Stearns Todd Wadena Wright	758,101