It means "land of Indians"
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It means the USA state of Indiana. インディアナ州 (Indiana-shū) The given name of Indiana is インディアナ (Indiana) in Japanese script.
Indiana means "Land of Indians". As a name for a person, Indiana is a girls name, and means "from India" (The reason Native Americans were referred to as Indians is because when Columbus landed on North America, he mistakenly thought he was in India.) Indiana Jones is a male character is the popular series with the same name. In those stories, "Indiana" was a nickname. In "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" Indiana's father won't call him "Indiana" because "it was the dog's name!"
'Indiana' was the name of his dog
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Henry Walton Jones, Jr. is Indiana Jones' real name. He acquired the name, Indiana, from the name of his boyhood family dog.
It means "land of Indians" Source: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0854966.html
Indianapolis is the capital of Indiana.
Dr. Rene Belloq, if you mean the guy who opens the Ark
Indiana has no true deserts.
Robert Indiana's birth name is Robert Clark.
The name of the newspaper in Corydon, Indiana is "The Corydon Democrat."
His dogs name was "Indiana", which is why he prefered that nickname.