The capital and largest city of Manitoba, Winnipeg is located at the confluence of the RED RIVER and ASSINIBOINE RIVER, 100 km north of the Minnesota border. Lying midway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, it has been called "Bull's Eye of the Dominion," and situated where the Canadian SHIELD gives way to the prairie, "Gateway to the West." Winnipeg is the Canadian city which receives the most winter sunshine, averaging 358.2 hours. The name derives from the Cree name for the lake 65 km north, win-nipi, meaning "murky water."