has a ‘city’ with 5 people, Maza, North Dakota. No matter how small each place is officially a city.

Capital: Bismarck

Population: 762,062

Founded: November 2, 1889 (39th)

State Bird: Western Meadowlark

State Tree: American Elm

State Flower: Wild Prairie Rose

Number of Counties: 53

Largest City: Fargo- 129,530

Nickname: Peace Garden State

Number of Farms: 26,100

Average Farm Size: 1,238 acres

Total Farmland: 39.6 million acres

• North Dakota ranks #1 in many crops:

  • Spring Wheat

  • Durum

  • edible peas

  • edible beans

  • pinto beans

  • navy beans

  • flaxseed

  • canola

  • honey

• North Dakota also produces sugar beets, potatoes, oats, lentils, field peas and buckwheat

• cattle & dairy cattle

• turkeys

• in 1887 the Dakotas split into North and South Dakota

• Once the area of an ancient lake the eastern side of ND is filled with many farms that feed the US

• the Badlands is a harsh stone valley

• Dakota means friend in Sioux Indian language

• Roughriders are the 1st US Volunteer Cavalry. They were cowboys that fought in the Spanish-American war.

• On February 17, 2007: 8,962 people made snow angels on the state capitol grounds. This is a Guinness World Record

• The camera was invented in 1887

• there are more than 90,000 bison in the state

• the only state owned flour milling facility in the US is in ND

• ND produces almost 50% of the country’s spring wheat

• In 2013, ND took Hawai’i as the happiest state in the US

• North Dakota is the coldest state in the lower 48

• The sunflower is grown here more than anything else mainly for oil

• Most of the US pasta is made from durum wheat grown in ND