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South Dakota Facts
South Dakota Facts
State Number of Counties: 64
* Aurora * Beadle * Bennett * Bon Homme * Brookings * Brown * Brule * Buffalo * Butte * Campbell * Charles Mix * Clark * ClayCodington * Corson * Custer * Davison * Day * Deuel * Dewey * Douglas * Edmunds * Fall River * Faulk * Grant * Gregory * Haakon * Hamlin * Hand * Hanson * Harding * Hughes * Hutchinson * Hyde * Jackson * Jerauld * Jones * Kingsbury * Lake * Lawrence * Lincoln * Lyman * Marshall * McCook * McPherson * Meade * Mellette * Miner * Minnehaha * Moody * Pennington * Perkins * Potter * Roberts * Sanborn * Shannon * Spink * Stanley * Sully * Todd * Tripp * Turner * Union * Walworth * Yankton * Ziebach *
State Other Largest Cities: Sioux Falls, Rapid City, Aberdeen, Watertown, Brookings, Mitchell, Pierre, Yankton, Huron, Vermillion
More Facts About South Dakota:
State Flag: Adopted in 1963
State Motto: "Under God the people rule"
State Capital: Pierre
State Abbreviation: SD
State Name of Residents: South Dakotans
Date State Entered the Union: November 2, 1889
State Size: 77,121 square miles
State Song: Hail, South Dakota
State Nick Name: Mount Rushmore State
State Tree: Black Hills Spruce
State Flower: American pasqueflower - The May day flower
State Mammal: Coyote
State Bird: Chinese ring-necked pheasant
State Fish: Walleye
State Insect: Honey bee (Apis Mellifera)
State Fossil: Triceratops - this was three-horned plant-eating dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period.
State Gem Stone: Fairburn agate
State Jewelry: Black Hills gold
State Mineral: Rose quartz
State Soil: Houdek
State Major Rivers: Cheyenne River, Missouri River, James River, White River
State Major Lakes: Lake Oahe, Lake Francis Case, Lewis and Clark Lake
State Highest Point: Harney Peak - 7,242 feet (2,207 m) above sea level
State Lowest point: Big Stone lake - 962 feet (29.5 m) above sea level
Bordering States: Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Wyoming
State Name Origin: From the native Indians which called themselves "Dakota"
State Largest City: Sioux Falls
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