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It was the 39th State (1889)
North Dakota joined the Union on November 2, 1889. It is the 39th state to join.
North Dakota was admitted into the Union on November 2, 1889 becoming the 39th state to join the Union.
North Dakota is the 39th state; South Dakota is the 40th. The true, technical, answer is unknown because no one really knows which state President Harrison signed the papers for first, but North Dakota is usually considered the 39th state due to the fact that it precedes South Dakota in alphabetical order.
No, North Dakota joined the union on November 2, 1889 as the 39th state to join the union.
North Dakota was admitted into the Union on November 2, 1889 becoming the 39th state to join the Union.
North Dakota became the 39th state admitted to the union on November 2, 1889.
New Jersey was the third state to join the Union and North Dakota is listed as the 39th US State.
North Dakota was admitted into the Union on November 2, 1889 becoming the 39th state to join the Union.
North Dakota and South Dakota were both admitted to the Union on 02 Nov 1889. The position of which was admitted first, and is thus actually the 39th state, depends on which of the Dakotas you live in. However, the two were listed alphabetically in the Statutes At Large because President Benjamin Harrison directed his Secretary of State to shuffle the proclamations of statehood so that he would not know which he was signing first.
The 39th state is North Dakota AS WELL as South Dakota; the two joined the Union on the same date, and neither is given the position of 40th legally. However, North Dakota is generally thought as the 39th state and South Dakota the 40th simply because of the alphabetical order and it is just easier to not have two 39th states.
Bismarck is the capital city in the U.S. state of North Dakota. North Dakota was admitted into the Union on November 2, 1889 becoming the 39th state to join the Union.