Main city: Saint Paul
Timezone: Central
Phone type: Unknown
Operator: Qwest Corporation

Saint Paul, the capital and second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2012, the city's estimated population was 290,770. Saint Paul is the county seat of Ramsey County, the smallest and most densely populated county in Minnesota. The city lies mostly on the east bank of the Mississippi River in the area surrounding its point of confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Minneapolis, the state's largest city. Known as the "Twin Cities," the two form the core of Minneapolis–Saint Paul, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States, with about 3.45 million residents. ^source

Area code 612 is the telephone numbering plan code for the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota and a few surrounding areas such as Fort Snelling, St. Anthony and Richfield. It is currently the smallest area code in the state by land area. However, like every single metropolitan area code in the United States, the region used to be much larger, accounting for the entire Twin Cities region and a wide swath surrounding it. The Twin Cities metro calling area (612, most of area codes 651, 952, and 763, plus parts of area codes 320 and 507 in addition to 612) is the largest geographic toll-free calling zone in the United States. ^source