Minto may refer to the following:

Places

• Minto, Alaska
• Minto, North Dakota
• Minto, New Brunswick
• Minto (Manitoba riding), a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba
• Minto, New South Wales
• Minto, Ontario
• Minto City, British Columbia, also known as simply Minto.

The Canadian and Australian Mintos are all named after Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, a popular British peer who served as Governor-General of Canada and also as viceroy of India. He may be the namesake of the American Mintos as well, but they may alternatively be named after Minto, a village near Hawick, Roxburghshire, from which the Earls of Minto get their name.

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