North Dakota - School-Age

North Dakota State Symbols
Information Sheet and Color Pages (pdf)

North Dakota: State Seal

Beverage:Milk

Bird: Western Meadowlark

Dance: Square Dance

Fish: Northern Pike

Flower: Wild Prairie Rose

United States Senators from North Dakota.

The geographic center of North America is near the town of Rugby, North Dakota.

North Dakota's official nickname is the Peace Garden State. This nickname honors the International Peace Garden.

Dakota is most often called the Flickertail State, because of the many Richardson ground squirrels that are abundant in North Dakota.

Writing Rock, twelve miles northeast of Grenora, is a large glacial boulder covered with Indian pictographs.

Land regions. North Dakota has three major land regions: in the east the flat Red River Valley and the rolling Drift Prairie and in the west the Missouri Plateau of the Great Plains .

The Red River of the North forms the eastern border of North Dakota. It forms the North Dakota-Minnesota border.

North Dakota's top industry is agriculture (farming).

North Dakota is one of the largest producers of .

North Dakota is almost always in the top 3 producers of sunflowers in the entire country. North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota grow approximately 75% of the sunflowers in the United States.

Major rivers: James River, Missouri River, Red River