The official nickname of North Dakota, as adopted by the North Dakota State Legislature in 1957, is the Peace Garden State. Other nicknames for North Dakota are the Flickertail State and the Roughrider State.
Officially, South Dakota's nickname is "The Mount Rushmore State" since 1980 when it abandoned "The Sunshine State" as its nickname.
Other nicknames for South Dakota:
The Coyote State
The Blizzard State
The Artesian State
The Land of Infinite Variety
The official nickname for the US state of North Dakota is "The Peace Garden State" as chosen by the North Dakota state legislature in 1957.
North Dakota is called the Peace Garden State
South Dakota has one official nickname, "The Mount Rushmore State".South Dakota is also known as:The Sunshine StateThe Coyote StateThe Blizzard StateThe Artesian StateLand of Infinite Varietyfor a total of six nicknames.
Jordan Charter goes by South Dakota.
Mount Rushmore State, Coyote State, Sunshine state.
Heading south from North Dakota wiill take you into South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and finally into Oklahoma.
According to the South Dakota Tourism Bureau, South Dakota comes from the Siouan language of Sioux tribe and it means allies. There are three dialects of the language: Nakota, Dakota, and Lakota.
North Dakota has no current death penalty. South Dakota has had one execution since 1976 and three people are on death row.
There are three state capitols on the Missouri River.Jefferson City, MissouriPierre, South DakotaBismarck, North Dakota
South Dakota has three major attractions. In western South Dakota, there are the Black Hills, which were the site of a major gold rush. In the Black Hills are Mount Rushmore and the Badlands.
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Approximately three million tourists visit Mount Rushmore in South Dakota annually.
The three main physical features of South Dakota are the Prairie Hills in Eastern South Dakota, the Black Hills in Western South Dakota, and the Badlands in South-Western South Dakota. The Prairie Hills influence people to live in South Dakota because they provide good farmland and opportunities for recreation such as boating, fishing, swimming, biking, hiking, etc. The Badlands and the Black Hills also offer opportunities for recreation along with tourism related businesses. Much of western South Dakota is good ranch land.