Main city: Saint Paul
Timezone: Central
Phone type: Landline
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 952 is the telephone numbering plan code in Minnesota for the southwestern suburbs of Minneapolis-St. Paul including cities such as Bloomington, Eden Prairie, Edina and Minnetonka. It was created in 2000 along with area code 763 (northwest suburbs) when they were carved out of area code 612, which now only contains Minneapolis and a few inner-ring locales. ^source