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North Dakota is a state in the of the . Since Lewis and Clark wintered here along the Missouri River, the land has become known for its rugged badlands in the west, fertile farmlands in the east, and ample hunting and fishing throughout.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Bismarck and Fargo.

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is the capital of North Dakota and the county seat of Burleigh County. is North Dakota's second most populous city, after .

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is a charming western city of just over 100,000 in the of North Dakota. As the biggest city for more than 200 miles in any direction, it's a cultural hub for the region, and its lively, walkable downtown is full of old-fashioned architecture and friendly cafes.

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is a city in the region of North Dakota with an estimated 48,000 inhabitants in 2020. Known as the Magic City, it's a significant rail hub.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Red River Valley and Lakes and Gardens.

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The is a region in North Dakota in the United States.

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Lakes & Gardens is a region in North Dakota in the United States.

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Coteaus & Plains is a region of North Dakota in the United States.

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is a region in North Dakota in the United States.

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The of North Dakota are in the southwest portion of the state. Here, the Little Missouri and other rivers carve stunning rock features out of the dry prairie.

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The are a region of North Dakota. The are located along the border with , in the central part of the state. It is one of only a few naturally forested places in the state, and provides ample opportunities for outdoor activities and just taking in the scenery.

North Dakota

Latitude of center
47.6201° or 47° 37′ 13″ north
Longitude of center
-100.5407° or 100° 32′ 27″ west
Population
641,000
Elevation
1,909 feet (582 metres)
Abbreviation
“ND”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316979718
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
5690763
Wiki­data ID
Q1207
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“North Dakota” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Noord-Dakota”
  • Albanian: “Dakota e Veriut”
  • Albanian: “North Dakota”
  • Amharic: “ኖርዝ ዳኮታ”
  • Arabic: “داكوتا الشمالية”
  • Aragonese: “Dakota d’o Norte”
  • Armenian: “Հյուսիսային Դակոտա”
  • Arpitan: “Dakota du Nord”
  • Asturian: “Dakota del Norte”
  • Aymara: “North Dakota suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şimali Dakota”
  • Balinese: “Dakota Kalér”
  • Basque: “Ipar Dakota”
  • Bavarian: “Noad-Dakota”
  • Belarusian: “Паўночная Дакота”
  • Bengali: “উত্তর ডাকোটা”
  • Bhojpuri: “नॉर्थ डकोटा”
  • Bishnupriya: “নর্থ ডাকোটা”
  • Bislama: “Not Dakota”
  • Bosnian: “Sjeverna Dakota”
  • Breton: “North Dakota”
  • Breton: “Norzh Dakota”
  • Bulgarian: “Северна Дакота”
  • Burmese: “မြောက်ဒါကိုတာပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Dakota del Nord”
  • Cebuano: “North Dakota”
  • Central Bikol: “North Dakota”
  • Central Kurdish: “داکۆتای باکوور”
  • Chavacano: “North Dakota”
  • Chechen: “Къилбаседа Дакота”
  • Chinese: “North Dakota”
  • Chinese: “北达科他州 / 北達科他州”
  • Chinese: “北达科他州”
  • Chinese: “北達克達州”
  • Chinese: “北達哥他州”
  • Chinese: “北達科他州”
  • Chuvash: “Çурçĕр Дакота”
  • Cornish: “Dakota Gledh”
  • Corsican: “Dakota di u Nordu”
  • Corsican: “North Dakota”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Cenübiy Dakota”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Şimaliy Dakota”
  • Croatian: “Sjeverna Dakota”
  • Czech: “North Dakota”
  • Czech: “Severní Dakota”
  • Czech: “State of North Dakota”
  • Dagbani: “North Dakota”
  • Danish: “North Dakota”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Dakota Zımey”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Dakotay Zımey”
  • Dutch: “ND”
  • Dutch: “Noord-Dakota”
  • Dutch: “North Dakota”
  • Eastern Mari: “Йӱдвел Дакота”
  • Eastern Mari: “Йӱдвел Дакото”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “داكوتا الشماليه”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نورث داكوتا”
  • Esperanto: “ND”
  • Esperanto: “Nord-Dakoto”
  • Esperanto: “Norda Dakoto”
  • Esperanto: “Norddakoto”
  • Estonian: “Põhja-Dakota”
  • Ewe: “North Dakota”
  • Faroese: “North Dakota”
  • Fiji Hindi: “North Dakota”
  • Finnish: “North Dakota”
  • Finnish: “Pohjois-Dakota”
  • French: “Dakota du Nord”
  • French: “État des Jardins de la paix”
  • French: “État du Dakota du Nord”
  • French: “ND”
  • French: “US-ND”
  • Gagauz: “Poyraz Dakota”
  • Galician: “Dacota do Norte”
  • Georgian: “ჩრდილოეთი დაკოტა”
  • German: “Nord-Dakota”
  • German: “Norddakota”
  • German: “North Dakota”
  • Gothic: “𐌽𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌸𐌰 𐌳𐌰𐌺𐍉𐍄𐌰”
  • Greek: “Βόρεια Ντακότα”
  • Greek: “Πολιτεία της Βόρειας Ντακότας”
  • Guarani: “Dakóta Yvategua”
  • Guarani: “Yvate Dakota”
  • Gujarati: “નોર્થ ડકોટા”
  • Haitian: “Dakota dinò”
  • Hakka Chinese: “North Dakota”
  • Hausa: “North Dakota”
  • Hawaiian: “Kakoka ‘Ākau”
  • Hawaiian: “Kakoka ʻĀkau”
  • Hebrew: “דקוטה הצפונית”
  • Hindi: “उत्तर डेकोटा”
  • Hindi: “नॉर्थ डकोटा”
  • Hungarian: “Észak-Dakota”
  • Icelandic: “Norður-Dakóta”
  • Icelandic: “North Dakota”
  • Ido: “Norda-Dakota”
  • Ido: “Nordal Dakota”
  • Igbo: “North Dakota”
  • Iloko: “North Dakota”
  • Inari Sami: “Tave-Dakota”
  • Indonesian: “Dakota Utara”
  • Interlingua: “Dakota del Nord”
  • Interlingue: “Nord-Dakota”
  • Inuktitut: “ᑖᑰᑖ ᑐᓄᕕᐊᖅ”
  • Inupiaq: “North Dakota”
  • Irish: “Dakota Thuaidh”
  • Italian: “Dakota del Nord”
  • Japanese: “ノースダコタ”
  • Japanese: “ノースダコタ州”
  • Japanese: “北ダコタ”
  • Japanese: “北ダコタ州”
  • Javanese: “North Dakota”
  • Kabiyè: “Takotaa Hayɩ Kiŋ”
  • Kabiyè: “Takotaa nɛ hayʊ kiŋ”
  • Kalmyk: “Ар Дакот”
  • Kannada: “ಉತ್ತರ ಡಕೋಟ”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Мамырлыкъ Бачханы штаты”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Сиу индейцлилени штаты”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Топракъ агъач къоянны штаты”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Шимал Дакота”
  • Kazakh: “Солтүстік Дакота”
  • Kirghiz: “Түндүк Дакота (штат)”
  • Kirghiz: “Түндүк Дакота”
  • Komering: “Dakota Liba”
  • Korean: “노스다코타 주”
  • Korean: “노스다코타”
  • Korean: “노스다코타주”
  • Kurdish: “Dakotaya Bakur”
  • Ladin: “North Dakota”
  • Ladino: “Dakota del Norte”
  • Latin: “Dacota Septentrionalis”
  • Latvian: “Ziemeļdakota”
  • Ligurian: “Dakota do Nòrd”
  • Limburgan: “North Dakota”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Dakota Norde”
  • Literary Chinese: “北達科他州”
  • Lithuanian: “Šiaurės Dakota”
  • Lombard: “Dakota del Nord”
  • Low German: “Noord-Dakota”
  • Low German: “Noorddakota”
  • Low German: “North Dakota”
  • Luxembourgish: “North Dakota”
  • Macedonian: “Северна Дакота”
  • Maithili: “नर्थ डेकोटा”
  • Malagasy: “Dakôta Avaratra”
  • Malay: “Dakota Utara”
  • Malayalam: “വടക്കൻ ഡക്കോട്ട”
  • Manipuri: “ꯑꯋꯥꯡ ꯗꯥꯀꯣꯇꯥ”
  • Manx: “Dakota Hwoaie”
  • Maori: “North Dakota”
  • Maori: “Takouta-ki-te-raki”
  • Marathi: “नॉर्थ डकोटा”
  • Mazanderani: “شمالی داکوتا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “North Dakota”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “North Dakota”
  • Mingrelian: “ოორუე დაკოტა”
  • Mongolian: “Хойд Дакота”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “داكوطا الشمالية”
  • Nauru: “North Dakota”
  • Navajo: “Náhookǫsjí Naałání Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “नर्थ डेकोटा”
  • Newari: “नर्थ दाकोता”
  • Northern Frisian: “North Dakota”
  • Northern Luri: “داکوتا شمالی”
  • Northern Sami: “Davvi-Dakota”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “N.D.”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “ND”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nord-Dakota”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “North Dakota”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nord-Dakota”
  • Norwegian: “Nord-Dakota”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Dakota del Nòrd”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܢܘܪܬ ܕܐܟܘܬܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Norþ Dakota”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Norþdacota”
  • Ossetian: “Цæгат Дакотæ”
  • Pali: “उत्तर डेकोटा”
  • Pampanga: “North Dakota”
  • Pampanga: “Pangulung Dakota”
  • Panjabi: “ਉੱਤਰੀ ਡਕੋਟਾ”
  • Papiamento: “North Dakota”
  • Persian: “داکوتای شمالی”
  • Picard: “Dakota du Nord”
  • Piemontese: “Dakota dël Nòrd”
  • Polish: “Dakota Północna”
  • Portuguese: “Dakota do Norte”
  • Portuguese: “Estado da Dakota do Norte”
  • Portuguese: “N.D.”
  • Portuguese: “ND”
  • Portuguese: “North Dakota”
  • Pushto: “شمالي داکوتا”
  • Quechua: “North Dakota suyu”
  • Romanian: “Dakota de Nord”
  • Romansh: “North Dakota”
  • Russia Buriat: “Хойто Дакота”
  • Russian: “Северная Дакота”
  • Russian: “Штат земляной белки”
  • Russian: “Штат индейцев племени сиу”
  • Russian: “Штат Сада Мира”
  • Samogitian: “Šiaurės Dakota”
  • Sanskrit: “नार्थ डेकोटा”
  • Sardinian: “Dakota de Nord”
  • Saterfriesisch: “North Dakota”
  • Scots: “North Dakota”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Dakota a Tuath”
  • Serbian: “Северна Дакота”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sjeverna Dakota”
  • Sicilian: “Dakota dû Nord”
  • Silesian: “Půłnocno Dakota”
  • Sindhi: “اتر ڊڪوٽا”
  • Sinhala: “උතුරු ඩකොටා”
  • Sinhala: “උතුරු ඩැකෝටා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Tâʹvv-Dakota”
  • Slovak: “Severná Dakota”
  • Slovenian: “Severna Dakota”
  • Somali: “Waqooyi Dakota”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شمال داکوتا ایالتی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شومالی داکوتا”
  • Spanish: “Dakota del Norte (Estados Unidos)”
  • Spanish: “Dakota del Norte”
  • Spanish: “DK”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Cola Parpadeante”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Dakota del Norte”
  • Spanish: “Estado Jardín de la Paz”
  • Spanish: “Estado roughrider”
  • Spanish: “ND”
  • Swahili: “North Dakota”
  • Swedish: “ND”
  • Swedish: “Norddakota”
  • Swedish: “North Dakota”
  • Swiss German: “Nord Dakota”
  • Swiss German: “North Dakota”
  • Tagalog: “Hilagang Dakota”
  • Tagalog: “North Dakota”
  • Tajik: “Дакотаи Шимолӣ”
  • Talysh: “Kobəsonə Dakota”
  • Talysh: “Xaremə Dakota”
  • Tamil: “நோர்த் டகோட்டா”
  • Tamil: “வடக்கு டகோட்டா”
  • Tatar: “Төньяк Дакота”
  • Telugu: “నార్త్ డకోటా”
  • Thai: “รัฐนอร์ทดาโคตา”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Nord Dakota”
  • Tosk Albanian: “North Dakota”
  • Tumbuka: “North Dakota”
  • Turkish: “Kuzey Dakota eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Kuzey Dakota, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri”
  • Turkish: “Kuzey Dakota”
  • Turkish: “N. Dak.”
  • Turkish: “N.D.”
  • Turkish: “ND”
  • Turkish: “State of North Dakota”
  • Turkish: “US-ND”
  • Uighur: “Shimaliy Dakota Shitati”
  • Ukrainian: “Північна Дакота”
  • Urdu: “شمالی ڈکوٹا”
  • Uzbek: “Shimoliy Dakota”
  • Venetian: “Dakota del Nord”
  • Vietnamese: “Bắc Dakota”
  • Vietnamese: “North Dakota”
  • Vlaams: “North Dakota”
  • Vlax Romani: “North Dakota”
  • Volapük: “North Dakota”
  • Waray (Philippines): “North Dakota”
  • Welsh: “Gogledd Dakota”
  • Western Frisian: “Noard Dakota”
  • Western Frisian: “Noard-Dakota”
  • Western Mari: “Йыдвел Дакота”
  • Western Panjabi: “اتلا ڈکوٹا”
  • Western Panjabi: “نارتھ ڈیکوٹا”
  • Wu Chinese: “北达科他州”
  • Yakut: “Хоту Дакота”
  • Yiddish: “צפון דעקאטע”
  • Yoruba: “Àríwá Dakota”
  • Yoruba: “North Dakota”
  • Yue Chinese: “北達哥他州”
  • Zeeuws: “North Dakota”
  • Zhuang: “Dakota Baihbaek”
  • “Dakòta dal Nòrd”
  • “ma Notakota”
  • “North Dakota”
  • “Šiaurės Dakota”
  • “Tsonko Dakota”
  • “Tsonko Dakota Tlahtohkayotl”
  • “Tsonko Dakota Tlatilantli”
  • “नॉर्थ डकोटा”

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