paragraph_text: The five largest river basins (by area), from largest to smallest, are the basins of the Amazon (7M km), the Congo (4M km), the Nile (3.4 M km), the Río de la Plata (3.2 M km), and the Mississippi (3M km). The three rivers that drain the most water, from most to least, are the Amazon, Ganga, and Congo rivers.

paragraph_text: William L. McKnight (November 11, 1887 – March 4, 1978) was an American businessman and philanthropist who served his entire career in the 3M corporation, rising to chairman of the board from 1949 to 1966. He founded the McKnight Foundation in 1953.

paragraph_text: Lola (minor planet designation: 463 Lola) (1900 FS) is a Main-belt asteroid discovered on 31 October 1900 by Max Wolf at Heidelberg. It is named after Lola, a character from Pietro Mascagni's opera "Cavalleria Rusticana".

paragraph_text: The 3M Company, formerly known as the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company is an American multinational conglomerate corporation operating in the fields of industry, worker safety, health care, and consumer goods. The company produces a variety of products, including adhesives, abrasives, laminates, passive fire protection, personal protective equipment, window films, paint protection films, dental and orthodontic products, electrical & electronic connecting and insulating materials, medical products, car-care products, electronic circuits, healthcare software and optical films. It is based in Maplewood, Minnesota, a suburb of St. Paul.

paragraph_text: Towanda is a borough and the county seat of Bradford County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is located northwest of Wilkes-Barre, on the Susquehanna River. The name means "burial ground" in the Algonquian language. Settled in 1784 and incorporated in 1828, Towanda was once known primarily for its industrial interests, which included flour, planing and silk mills, a foundry and machine shop, dye works, and manufacturers of talking machines, cut glass, toys and furniture. The population in 1900 was 4,663 and 4,281 in 1910. As of the 2010 census the population of Towanda was 2,919.

paragraph_text: Markham Island () is a small but conspicuous island lying just off Oscar Point in the northern part of Terra Nova Bay, Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was discovered in February 1900 by the British Antarctic Expedition (1898–1900) under C.E. Borchgrevink, who named it for Sir Clements Markham.

paragraph_text: Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie (; 19 March 1900 – 14 August 1958), born "Jean Frédéric Joliot", was a French physicist, husband of Irène Joliot-Curie with whom he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of artificial radioactivity.

paragraph_text: Along with neighbouring Stormont and Malone in south Belfast, Cherryvalley is considered one of Northern Ireland's most affluent and exclusive residential areas with average house prices reaching £2-3m. Cherryvalley is also an electoral ward of East Belfast which was created in 1985 in order to reduce the electorates of the neighbouring Stormont and Shandon wards.

paragraph_text: Geikie Ridge () is a massive mountain ridge, long and wide, forming the divide between Dugdale Glacier and Murray Glacier in the Admiralty Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was first charted by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898–1900, under Carsten Borchgrevink, who named the high land between these glaciers "Geikie Land", after Sir Archibald Geikie (for whom Geikie Glacier and Geikie Inlet were also named). The generic "Land" has been changed to "Ridge", since it was not appropriate for so small a feature, but Borchgrevink's intent in naming the whole mass has been respected. This geographical feature lies situated on the Pennell Coast, a portion of Antarctica lying between Cape Williams and Cape Adare.

paragraph_text: Victoire Léodile Béra (18 August 1824 – 20 May 1900) was a French novelist, journalist and feminist. She took the name of André Léo, her two twin sons' names.

paragraph_text: 3M launched the product as ``Press' n Peel ''in stores in four cities in 1977, but results were disappointing. A year later 3M instead issued free samples directly to consumers in Boise, Idaho, with 94 percent of those who tried them indicating they would buy the product. The product was sold as`` Post-Its'' in 1979 when the rollout introduction began, and was sold across the United States from April 6, 1980. The following year they were launched in Canada and Europe.

paragraph_text: Country / nationality Population Born (date) Name and surname Notes Foot - notes Munich 1m 15 December 1957 Thomas Seehaus Awarded by Mayor Thomas Wimmer with a 1,000 mark savings account. United States 200m 20 November 1967 Robert Ken Woo Jr Named by Life magazine, not the government. None named for 300m. Australia 15m 29 January 1982 Sally Hodgson Awarded by Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs Ian Macphee Indonesia 200m 4 February 1997 Wahyu Nusantara Aji Complains that government promises of support were not kept India 1b 11 May 2000 Aastha Arora speculation re Independence Day 1999 till Registrar demurred. Complains that government promises of support were not kept. Kyrgyzstan 5m 27 August 2002 Tynchtykbek Kuramayev Australia 21m 29 June 2007 Mia Ruby Templeton Awarded by Treasurer Peter Costello Taiwan 23m 17 July 2008 Wu Cheng - en certificate from Premier of the Republic of China Liu Chao - shiuan Auckland Region, New Zealand 1.5 m 1 February 2012 Ramonah Patience Toomalatai Welcomed by Len Brown the Mayor of Auckland Kazakhstan 17m 17 May 2013 Altynbek Eskaraev Алтынбек Ескараев Vietnam 90m 1 November 2013 Nguyễn Thị Thùy Dung randomly chosen by the General Office of Population and Family Planning from among two dozen babies born that day Philippines 100m 27 July 2014 Chonalyn Sentino Wake County, North Carolina 1m 22 August 2014 Anderson Grace Hughes Offered full scholarship by Wake Technical Community College Mongolia 3m 24 January 2015 Mongoljin Khatanbold Silicon Valley 3m 5 May 2015 Max Danner Utah 3m 24 October 2015 Sadie Christensen By governor Gary Herbert Kyrgyzstan 6m 27 November 2015 Aylin Kojosheva

paragraph_text: Pierre Nord, real name André Léon Brouillard (15 April 1900 – 10 December 1985), was a French writer, spy and resistance member.

paragraph_text: Stoneham is an unincorporated community in Grimes County, Texas, United States. The town was once a part of a colony operated by Stephen F. Austin and by 1900, the population grew to 250. Although a ghost town by 1970, the town has since grown in population.

paragraph_text: In 1968, Dr. Spencer Silver, a scientist at 3M in the United States, was attempting to develop a super-strong adhesive. Instead he accidentally created a ``low - tack, ''reusable, pressure - sensitive adhesive. For five years, Silver promoted his`` solution without a problem'' within 3M both informally and through seminars but failed to gain acceptance. In 1974 a colleague who had attended one of his seminars, Art Fry, came up with the idea of using the adhesive to anchor his bookmark in his hymn book. Fry then utilized 3M's officially sanctioned ``permitted bootlegging ''policy to develop the idea. The original notes' yellow color was chosen by accident, as the lab next - door to the Post-It team had only yellow scrap paper to use.

paragraph_text: Albin Killat (born January 1, 1961) is a retired diver from Germany, who is best known for twice winning the gold medal in the men's 3m springboard event at the European Championships (1987 and 1991).

paragraph_text: From fewer than 6,120 white settlers in 1850, Minnesota's official population grew to over 1.7 million by 1900. Each of the next six decades saw a 15 percent increase in population, reaching 3.4 million in 1960. Growth then slowed, rising 11 percent to 3.8 million in 1970, and an average of 9 percent over the next three decades to 4.9 million in the 2000 Census.The United States Census Bureau estimates the population of Minnesota was 5,611,179 on July 1, 2018, a 5.79 percent increase since the 2010 United States Census.  The rate of population change, and age and gender distributions, approximate the national average. Minnesota's center of population is in Hennepin County.As of the 2010 Census, the population of Minnesota was 5,303,925. The gender makeup of the state was 49.6% male and 50.4% female. 24.2% of the population were under the age of 18; 9.5% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 26.3% were from 25 to 44; 27.1% were from 45 to 64; and 12.9% were 65 years of age or older.The table below shows the racial composition of Minnesota's population as of 2017.

paragraph_text: Mathesis (minor planet designation: 454 Mathesis) is a main-belt asteroid that was discovered by German astronomer Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann on March 28, 1900. Its provisional name was 1900 FC.

paragraph_text: Gare d'Orsay is a former Paris railway station and hotel, built in 1900 to designs by Victor Laloux, Lucien Magne and Émile Bénard; it served as a terminus for the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans (Paris-Orléans Railway). It was the first electrified urban terminal station in the world, opened 28 May 1900, in time for the 1900 Exposition Universelle. After closure as a station, it reopened in December 1986 as the Musée d'Orsay, an art museum. The museum is currently served by the RER station of the same name.

paragraph_text: Ada is a township in Dickey County, North Dakota, United States. Its population during the 2000 Census was 60, and was estimated at 52 in 2009. Its population in 1900 was 232.

Question: By 1900, what was the population of the state 3M was named for?
Answer: 1.7 million