South Dakota

South Dakota is a state in the of the United States. South Dakota is most known for Mount Rushmore, where sculptor Gutzon Borglum carved the 60-foot faces of four American presidents into the side of a granite mountain.
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is the capital city of the U.S. state of South Dakota and the county seat of . As of the 2020 census, its population was 14,091. is the eleventh-most populous city of South Dakota, and the second-least populous U.S. state capital.

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is a city of about 184,000 in . Founded in 1883 in what was then known as the Dakota Territory, has grown from a sleepy Midwestern town into a resort for shopping and tourism in the northern Great Plains.

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is the largest city in the region of South Dakota. It is a convenient base for travel on to the , the Crazy Horse Memorial, the , and the .

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The are in the western part of South Dakota. This beautiful region consists of the Badlands, with canyons and rugged terrain; and the Black Hills, a mountain range with forests and the famous Mount Rushmore.

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The region comprises the northeast corner of South Dakota in the United States of America.

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The region of South Dakota is in the central part of the state in the United States of America. It follows the course of the Missouri River from North Dakota South to Nebraska.

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is in the United States of America.

South Dakota

Latitude of center
44.6472° or 44° 38′ 50″ north
Longitude of center
-100.3488° or 100° 20′ 56″ west
Population
925,000
Elevation
1,798 feet (548 metres)
Abbreviation
“SD”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316990807
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
5769223
Wiki­data ID
Q1211
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“South Dakota” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Suid-Dakota”
  • Albanian: “Dakota e Jugut”
  • Albanian: “South Dakota”
  • Amharic: “ደቡብ ዳኮታ”
  • Arabic: “داكوتا الجنوبية”
  • Aragonese: “Dakota d’o Sud”
  • Armenian: “Հարավային Դակոթա”
  • Armenian: “Հարավային Դակոտա”
  • Arpitan: “Dakota du Mié-jorn”
  • Arpitan: “Dakota du Sud”
  • Asturian: “Dakota del Sur”
  • Aymara: “South Dakota suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Cənubi Dakota”
  • Balinese: “Dakota Kelod”
  • Bashkir: “Көньяҡ Дакота”
  • Basque: “Hego Dakota”
  • Bavarian: “Sid-Dakota”
  • Belarusian: “Паўднёвая Дакота”
  • Bengali: “দক্ষিণ ডাকোটা”
  • Bhojpuri: “साउथ डकोटा”
  • Bishnupriya: “সাউথ ডাকোটা”
  • Bislama: “Saut Dakota”
  • Bosnian: “Južna Dakota”
  • Breton: “South Dakota”
  • Breton: “Su Dakota”
  • Bulgarian: “Южна Дакота”
  • Burmese: “တောင်ဒါကိုတာပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Dakota del Sud”
  • Cebuano: “South Dakota”
  • Central Bikol: “South Dakota”
  • Central Kurdish: “داکۆتای باشوور”
  • Chavacano: “South Dakota”
  • Chechen: “Къилба Дакота”
  • Cherokee: “ᏧᎦᎾᏮ ᏓᎪᏓ”
  • Cheyenne: “South Dakota”
  • Chinese: “South Dakota”
  • Chinese: “南达科他州”
  • Chinese: “南達科他州”
  • Chuvash: “Кăнтăр Дакота”
  • Cornish: “Dakota Dheghow”
  • Corsican: “Dakota di u Sudu”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Cenübiy Dakota”
  • Croatian: “Južna Dakota”
  • Czech: “Jižní Dakota”
  • Czech: “South Dakota”
  • Czech: “State of South Dakota”
  • Dagbani: “South Dakota”
  • Danish: “South Dakota”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Dakotay Veroci”
  • Dimli (individual language): “South Dakota”
  • Dutch: “SD”
  • Dutch: “South Dakota”
  • Eastern Mari: “Кечывалвел Дакота”
  • Eastern Mari: “Кечывалвел Дакото”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “داكوتا الجنوبيه”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ساوث داكوتا”
  • Esperanto: “SD”
  • Esperanto: “Sud-Dakoto”
  • Esperanto: “Suda Dakoto”
  • Esperanto: “Suddakoto”
  • Estonian: “Lõuna-Dakota”
  • Ewe: “South Dakota”
  • Faroese: “South Dakota”
  • Fiji Hindi: “South Dakota”
  • Finnish: “Etelä-Dakota”
  • Finnish: “South Dakota”
  • French: “Dakota du Sud”
  • French: “État du Mont Rushmore”
  • French: “SD”
  • French: “South Dakota”
  • Gagauz: “Üülen Dakota”
  • Galician: “Dacota do Sur”
  • Georgian: “სამხრეთი დაკოტა”
  • German: “South Dakota”
  • German: “Süd Dakota”
  • German: “Süd-Dakota”
  • Gothic: “𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍂𐌰 𐌳𐌰𐌺𐍉𐍄𐌰”
  • Greek: “Νότια Ντακότα”
  • Greek: “Πολιτεία της Νότιας Ντακότας”
  • Guarani: “Dakóta Ñembygua”
  • Guarani: “Ñemby Dakota”
  • Gujarati: “સાઉથ ડકોટા”
  • Haitian: “Dakota disid”
  • Hakka Chinese: “South Dakota”
  • Hausa: “South Dakota”
  • Hawaiian: “Kakoka Hema”
  • Hebrew: “דקוטה הדרומית”
  • Hindi: “साउथ डकोटा”
  • Hungarian: “Dél-Dakota”
  • Icelandic: “South Dakota”
  • Icelandic: “Suður-Dakóta”
  • Ido: “Suda-Dakota”
  • Ido: “Sudal Dakota”
  • Igbo: “Sawt Dakótạ”
  • Iloko: “South Dakota”
  • Inari Sami: “Maadâ-Dakota”
  • Indonesian: “Dakota Selatan”
  • Indonesian: “South Dakota”
  • Interlingua: “Dakota del Sud”
  • Interlingue: “Sud-Dakota”
  • Inuktitut: “ᑖᑰᑖ ᓂᒋᖅ”
  • Inupiaq: “South Dakota”
  • Irish: “An Dachóta Theas”
  • Irish: “Dakota Theas”
  • Italian: “Dakota del Sud”
  • Italian: “Lo Stato del Monte Rushmore”
  • Japanese: “サウスダコタ”
  • Japanese: “サウスダコタ州”
  • Japanese: “南ダコタ”
  • Japanese: “南ダコタ州”
  • Javanese: “South Dakota”
  • Kabiyè: “Takota Hadɛ Kiŋ”
  • Kabiyè: “Takota nɛ hadɛ kiŋ”
  • Kalmyk: “Өмнә Дакот”
  • Kannada: “ದಕ್ಷಿಣ ಡಕೋಟಾ”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Къыбыла Дакота”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Рашмор тауну штаты”
  • Kashmiri: “جۆنوٗبی ڈکوٹا”
  • Kazakh: “Оңтүстік Дакота”
  • Kirghiz: “Түштүк Дакота (штат)”
  • Kirghiz: “Түштүк Дакота”
  • Komering: “Dakota Hulu”
  • Korean: “남다코타”
  • Korean: “남다코타주”
  • Korean: “사우스다코타 주”
  • Korean: “사우스다코타”
  • Korean: “사우스다코타주”
  • Kurdish: “Dakotaya Başûr”
  • Kurdish: “South Dakota”
  • Ladin: “South Dakota”
  • Ladino: “Dakota del Sud”
  • Ladino: “Dakota del Sur”
  • Latin: “Dacota Meridiana”
  • Latin: “Dacota Meridionalis”
  • Latvian: “Dienviddakota”
  • Ligurian: “Dakota do Sud”
  • Limburgan: “South Dakota”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Dakota Sude”
  • Literary Chinese: “南達科他州”
  • Lithuanian: “Pietų Dakota”
  • Lombard: “Dakota del Süd”
  • Low German: “Süüd-Dakota”
  • Low German: “Süüddakota”
  • Luxembourgish: “South Dakota”
  • Macedonian: “Јужна Дакота”
  • Maithili: “साउथ डेकोटा”
  • Malagasy: “Dakota Atsimo”
  • Malay: “Dakota Selatan”
  • Malayalam: “തെക്കൻ ഡക്കോട്ട”
  • Manipuri: “ꯈꯥ ꯊꯪꯕ ꯗꯥꯀꯣꯇꯥ”
  • Manx: “Dakota Yiass”
  • Maori: “South Dakota”
  • Maori: “Takouta-ki-te-tonga”
  • Marathi: “साउथ डकोटा”
  • Mazanderani: “جنوبی داکوتا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “South Dakota”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “South Dakota”
  • Mingrelian: “ობჟათე დაკოტა”
  • Mongolian: “Өмнөд Дакота”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “داكوطا لجنوبية”
  • Nauru: “South Dakota”
  • Navajo: “Shádiʼááhjí Naałání Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “साउथ डेकोटा”
  • Newari: “दक्षिण ड्याकोटा”
  • Newari: “साउथ दाकोता”
  • Northern Frisian: “South Dakota”
  • Northern Luri: “داکوتا هارگه”
  • Northern Sami: “Lulli-Dakota”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sør-Dakota”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sør-Dakota”
  • Norwegian: “Sør-Dakota”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Dakota del Sud”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܣܐܘܬ ܕܐܟܘܬܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sūþ Dakota”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sūþdacota”
  • Oromo: “South Dakota”
  • Ossetian: “Хуссар Дакотæ”
  • Pali: “दक्षिण ड्याकोटा”
  • Pampanga: “Mauling Dakota”
  • Pampanga: “South Dakota”
  • Panjabi: “ਦੱਖਣੀ ਡਕੋਟਾ”
  • Papiamento: “South Dakota”
  • Persian: “داکوتای جنوبی”
  • Picard: “Dakota du Sud”
  • Piemontese: “Dakota dël Sud”
  • Polish: “Dakota Południowa”
  • Portuguese: “Dakota do Sul”
  • Portuguese: “Estado da Dakota do Sul”
  • Portuguese: “S.D.”
  • Portuguese: “SD”
  • Portuguese: “South Dakota”
  • Pushto: “سویلي داکوتا”
  • Pushto: “سوېلي داکوتا”
  • Quechua: “South Dakota suyu”
  • Romanian: “Dakota de Sud”
  • Romansh: “South Dakota”
  • Russia Buriat: “Урда Дакота”
  • Russian: “Вьюжный штат”
  • Russian: “Штат горы Рашмор”
  • Russian: “Южная Дакота”
  • Samogitian: “Pėitū Dakota”
  • Sanskrit: “दक्षिण डकोटा”
  • Sanskrit: “साउथ डेकोटा”
  • Sardinian: “Dakota de Sud”
  • Saterfriesisch: “South Dakota”
  • Scots: “Sooth Dakota”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Dakota a Deas”
  • Serbian: “Јужна Дакота”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Južna Dakota”
  • Sicilian: “Dakota dû Sud”
  • Silesian: “Połedńowo Dakota”
  • Sindhi: “ڏکڻ ڊڪوٽا”
  • Sinhala: “දකුණු ඩකොටා”
  • Sinhala: “දකුණු ඩැකෝටා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Saujj-Dakota”
  • Slovak: “Južná Dakota”
  • Slovenian: “Južna Dakota”
  • Somali: “Koonfur Dakota”
  • South Azerbaijani: “جنوب داکوتا ایالتی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “جنوبی داکوتا”
  • Spanish: “Dakota del Sur (Estados Unidos)”
  • Spanish: “Dakota del Sur”
  • Spanish: “DDS”
  • Spanish: “El Estado Coyote”
  • Spanish: “El estado de Mount Rushmore”
  • Spanish: “El Estado del Sol”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Dakota del Sur”
  • Swahili: “South Dakota”
  • Swedish: “SD”
  • Swedish: “South Dakota”
  • Swedish: “Syddakota”
  • Tagalog: “South Dakota”
  • Tajik: “Дакотаи Ҷанубӣ”
  • Talysh: “Nyso Dakota”
  • Tamil: “தெற்கு டகோட்டா”
  • Tatar: “Көньяк Дакота”
  • Telugu: “సౌత్ డకోటా”
  • Thai: “รัฐเซาท์ดาโคตา”
  • Thai: “รัฐเมาท์รัชมอร์”
  • Tumbuka: “South Dakota”
  • Turkish: “Güney Dakota eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Güney Dakota, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri”
  • Turkish: “Güney Dakota”
  • Turkish: “S. Dak.”
  • Turkish: “S.D.”
  • Turkish: “SD”
  • Turkish: “State of South Dakota”
  • Turkish: “US-SD”
  • Uighur: “Jenubiy Dakota Shitati”
  • Ukrainian: “Південна Дакота”
  • Urdu: “جنوبی ڈکوٹا”
  • Uzbek: “Janubiy Dakota”
  • Venetian: “Dakota del Sud”
  • Vietnamese: “Nam Dakota”
  • Vietnamese: “South Dakota”
  • Vlaams: “South Dakota”
  • Vlax Romani: “South Dakota”
  • Volapük: “South Dakota”
  • Waray (Philippines): “South Dakota”
  • Welsh: “De Dakota”
  • Western Frisian: “Súd Dakota”
  • Western Frisian: “Súd-Dakota”
  • Western Mari: “Кечӹвӓлвел Дакота”
  • Western Panjabi: “ساؤتھ ڈیکوٹا”
  • Western Panjabi: “لما ڈکوٹا”
  • Wu Chinese: “南达科他州”
  • Yakut: “Соҕуруу Дакота”
  • Yiddish: “דרום דעקאטע”
  • Yoruba: “Gúúsù Dakota”
  • Yoruba: “South Dakota”
  • Yue Chinese: “南達科他州”
  • Zeeuws: “South Dakota”
  • Zhuang: “Dakota Baihnamz”
  • “Dakòta dal Sud”
  • “Koyotlahtohkayotl”
  • “Koyotlatilantli”
  • “ma Satakota”
  • “Pėitū Dakota”
  • “South Dakota”
  • “Tsintlan Dakota”
  • “Tsintlan Dakota Tlahtohkayotl”
  • “Tsintlan Dakota Tlatilantli”
  • “साउथ डकोटा”

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