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Pierre

Pierre is the capital city of the U.S. state of and the county seat of . As of the 2020 census, its population was 14,091. Pierre is the eleventh-most populous city of South Dakota, and the second-least populous U.S. state capital.
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  • Type: City with 14,100 residents
  • Description: capital city of South Dakota and county seat of Hughes County
  • Also known as: “Mato”, “Pierre, SD”, and “Pierre, South Dakota”
  • Postal code: 57501

Places of Interest

Highlights include South Dakota Cultural Heritage Center and South Dakota State Capitol.

Museum
The in Pierre, South Dakota, is the headquarters of the South Dakota State Historical Society. Opened in 1989, the center houses the State Historical Society’s administrative, historic preservation, and research and publishing offices.

Building
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The is the state capitol building of the U.S. state of . Housing the South Dakota State Legislature, it is located in the state capital of Pierre at 500 East Capitol Avenue.

School building
T. F. Riggs High School, also known simply as Riggs, is the only high school in Pierre, South Dakota. The school mascot is the Pierre Governors. The school has over 800 students and is one of the biggest in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fort Pierre.

Town
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is a city in , United States. It is part of the Pierre, South Dakota micropolitan area and the county seat of .

Pierre

Latitude
44.3684° or 44° 22′ 6″ north
Longitude
-100.3511° or 100° 21′ 4″ west
Population
14,100
Elevation
1,480 feet (451 metres)
IATA airport code
PIR
United Nations Location Code
US PIR
Open location code
85PX9J9X+8G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151791080
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5767918
Wiki­data ID
Q40747
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Pierre” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Pierre”
  • Albanian: “Pierre”
  • Amharic: “ፒር፣ ደቡብ ዳኮታ”
  • Arabic: “بيري، داكوتا الجنوبية”
  • Arabic: “بيير، داكوتا الجنوبيه”
  • Arabic: “بيير، ساوث داكوتا”
  • Arabic: “بيير”
  • Arabic: “پيير، ساوث داكوتا”
  • Aragonese: “Pierre”
  • Armenian: “Պիեռ”
  • Asturian: “Pierre”
  • Basque: “Pierre”
  • Bavarian: “Pierre”
  • Belarusian: “Пір (Паўднёвая Дакота)”
  • Belarusian: “Пір, Паўднёвая Дакота”
  • Belarusian: “Пір”
  • Bengali: “পিয়ার, সাউথ ডাকোটা”
  • Bislama: “Pierre, Saut Dakota”
  • Bislama: “Pierre”
  • Bosnian: “Pierre”
  • Breton: “Pierre”
  • Bulgarian: “Пиер”
  • Bulgarian: “Пиър”
  • Catalan: “Pierre”
  • Cebuano: “Pierre”
  • Central Kurdish: “پێر، داکۆتای باشوور”
  • Chechen: “Пирр”
  • Chinese: “Pierre”
  • Chinese: “皮尔”
  • Chinese: “皮爾”
  • Cornish: “Pierre, Dakota Dheghow”
  • Cornish: “Pierre”
  • Corsican: “Pierre”
  • Croatian: “Pierre, Južna Dakota”
  • Croatian: “Pierre, South Dakota”
  • Croatian: “Pierre”
  • Czech: “Pierre”
  • Dagbani: “Pierre”
  • Danish: “Pierre, South Dakota”
  • Danish: “Pierre”
  • Dutch: “Pierre”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيير”
  • Esperanto: “Pierre, Suda Dakoto”
  • Esperanto: “Pierre”
  • Estonian: “Pierre”
  • Extremaduran: “Pierre”
  • Faroese: “Pierre”
  • Finnish: “Pierre, South Dakota”
  • Finnish: “Pierre”
  • French: “Pierre”
  • Galician: “Pierre, Dacota do Sur”
  • Galician: “Pierre, Dakota do Sur”
  • Galician: “Pierre”
  • Georgian: “პირი”
  • German: “Pierre”
  • Gilaki: “پيئر (نسايي داکؤتا)”
  • Gilaki: “پيئر”
  • Gothic: “𐍀𐌴𐌹𐌰𐌹𐍂”
  • Greek: “Πιερ”
  • Gujarati: “પિયર”
  • Haitian: “Pierre, Dakota disid”
  • Haitian: “Pierre”
  • Hebrew: “פיר”
  • Hindi: “पियर, दक्षिण डकोटा”
  • Hindi: “पियर”
  • Hungarian: “Pierre, South Dakota”
  • Hungarian: “Pierre”
  • Icelandic: “Pierre”
  • Ido: “Pierre, Sudal Dakota”
  • Ido: “Pierre”
  • Iloko: “Pierre, South Dakota”
  • Iloko: “Pierre”
  • Indonesian: “Pierre, Dakota Selatan”
  • Interlingua: “Pierre, South Dakota”
  • Interlingua: “Pierre”
  • Interlingue: “Pierre”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐲᕐ”
  • Irish: “Pierre, Dakota Theas”
  • Irish: “Pierre”
  • Italian: “Pierre”
  • Japanese: “ピア”
  • Kannada: “ಪಿಯರ್”
  • Kirghiz: “Пирр”
  • Komering: “Pierre, Dakota Selatan”
  • Korean: “피어”
  • Kurdish: “Pierre”
  • Ladin: “Pierre”
  • Latin: “Petropolis”
  • Latvian: “Pīra”
  • Ligurian: “Pierre”
  • Lithuanian: “Piras”
  • Lithuanian: “Pyras”
  • Lombard: “Pierre”
  • Macedonian: “Пјер”
  • Malagasy: “Pierre, South Dakota”
  • Malagasy: “Pierre”
  • Malay: “Pierre, Dakota Selatan”
  • Malay: “Pierre”
  • Malayalam: “പിയർ, തെക്കൻ ഡക്കോട്ട”
  • Malayalam: “പിയർ”
  • Maori: “Pierre, Takouta-ki-te-tonga”
  • Marathi: “पिएर, साउथ डकोटा”
  • Marathi: “पिएर”
  • Marathi: “पिएरे, साउथ डकोटा”
  • Marathi: “पियरे, साउथ डकोटा”
  • Marathi: “पियेर”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pierre”
  • Mirandese: “Pierre”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “پيير”
  • Newari: “पियर”
  • Newari: “पियेरे”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pierre, South Dakota”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pierre”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pierre i Sør-Dakota”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pierre”
  • Norwegian: “Pierre”
  • Novial: “Pierre”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pierre”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Petruswic, Sūþdacota”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Petrusƿīc”
  • Ossetian: “Пирр”
  • Pali: “पियेरे”
  • Pampanga: “Pierre, South Dakota”
  • Pampanga: “Pierre”
  • Persian: “پیر، داکوتای جنوبی”
  • Persian: “پیر”
  • Persian: “پییر”
  • Piemontese: “Pierre”
  • Polish: “Pierre”
  • Portuguese: “Pierre, Dakota do Sul”
  • Portuguese: “Pierre”
  • Quechua: “Pierre”
  • Romanian: “Pierre, Dakota de Sud”
  • Romanian: “Pierre, South Dakota”
  • Romanian: “Pierre”
  • Russian: “Пирр”
  • Samogitian: “Pirs”
  • Sanskrit: “पियेर्”
  • Sardinian: “Pierre”
  • Scots: “Pierre, Sooth Dakota”
  • Scots: “Pierre”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Pierre, Dakota a Deas”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Pierre”
  • Serbian: “Pierre”
  • Serbian: “Пир”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pierre, South Dakota”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pierre”
  • Sicilian: “Pierre”
  • Sinhala: “පියරේ”
  • Slovak: “Pierre”
  • Slovenian: “Pierre”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پیئر، جنوبی داکوتا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پیر، گونئی داکوتا”
  • Spanish: “Pierre (Dakota del Sur)”
  • Spanish: “Pierre”
  • Swahili: “Pierre, South Dakota”
  • Swahili: “Pierre”
  • Swedish: “Pierre, South Dakota”
  • Swedish: “Pierre”
  • Tagalog: “Pierre, South Dakota”
  • Tagalog: “Pierre”
  • Talysh: “Pirr”
  • Tamil: “பியேர்”
  • Tatar: “Пирр”
  • Telugu: “పియర్”
  • Thai: “เพียร์”
  • Turkish: “Pierre, Güney Dakota”
  • Turkish: “Pierre”
  • Ukrainian: “Пірр”
  • Urdu: “پیری، جنوبی ڈکوٹا”
  • Urdu: “پیری”
  • Uzbek: “Pierre”
  • Venetian: “Pierre”
  • Vietnamese: “Pierre, South Dakota”
  • Vietnamese: “Pierre”
  • Volapük: “Pierre, South Dakota”
  • Volapük: “Pierre”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pierre, South Dakota”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pierre”
  • Welsh: “Pierre, De Dakota”
  • Welsh: “Pierre”
  • Western Frisian: “Pierre”
  • Western Mari: “Пирр”
  • Western Panjabi: “پیر،ساؤتھ ڈیکوٹا”
  • Wu Chinese: “皮尔（南达科他州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “皮尔”
  • Yue Chinese: “皮爾”
  • “Pirs”

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