Yankton
Yankton is a city in and the county seat of Yankton County, South Dakota, United States. It became a city in 1889. The population was 15,411 at the 2020 census, making it the 7th most populous city in South Dakota, and it is the principal city of the Yankton…
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: City with 23,600 residents
- Description: county seat of Yankton County, South Dakota, United States
- Also known as: “Yankton (Dakota del Sur)”, “Yankton, SD”, and “Yankton, South Dakota”
- Postal code: 57078
Places of Interest
Highlights: Federal Prison Camp, Yankton and Discovery Bridge.
Federal Prison Camp, Yankton
Prison
Photo: Ammodramus, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include South Yankton and Green Island.
Yankton
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: City of Yankton, Yankton, Southeast South Dakota, South Dakota, Great Plains, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.8713° or 42° 52′ 17″ north
Longitude
-97.3967° or 97° 23′ 48″ west
Population
23,600
Elevation
1,207 feet (368 metres)
IATA airport code
YKN
Open location code
86J4VJC3+G8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Yankton” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ينكتون”
- Asturian: “Yankton”
- Basque: “Yankton”
- Bengali: “ইয়াংটন”
- Catalan: “City of Yankton”
- Catalan: “Yankton”
- Cebuano: “Yankton”
- Chechen: “Янктон”
- Chinese: “扬克顿”
- Chinese: “揚克頓”
- Czech: “Yankton”
- Dagbani: “Yankton”
- Danish: “Yankton”
- Dutch: “Yankton”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ينكتون”
- Finnish: “Yankton”
- French: “Yankton”
- Galician: “Yankton”
- German: “Yankton”
- Gilaki: “یانکتن (نسايي داکؤتا)”
- Gilaki: “یانکتن”
- Greek: “Γιάνκτον”
- Gujarati: “યાન્કટોન”
- Haitian: “Yankton, Dakota disid”
- Haitian: “Yankton”
- Hebrew: “ינקטון”
- Hindi: “यॅङ्कटन, दक्षिण डकोटा”
- Hindi: “यॅङ्कटन”
- Hungarian: “Yankton”
- Indonesian: “Yankton”
- Irish: “Yankton”
- Italian: “Yankton”
- Japanese: “ヤンクトン”
- Kannada: “ಯಾಂಕನ್”
- Korean: “양크턴”
- Ladin: “Yankton”
- Latvian: “Janktona”
- Lithuanian: “Janktonas”
- Malagasy: “Yankton, South Dakota”
- Malagasy: “Yankton”
- Malay: “Yankton”
- Marathi: “यँक्टन”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Yankton”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yankton”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yankton”
- Norwegian: “Yankton”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Yankton”
- Persian: “ینکتون، داکوتای جنوبی”
- Persian: “ینکتون”
- Polish: “Yankton”
- Portuguese: “Yankton”
- Russian: “Янктон”
- Serbian: “Јанктон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Yankton, South Dakota”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Yankton”
- Sinhala: “යෑන්ක්ටන්”
- Slovak: “Yankton”
- Slovenian: “Yankton”
- South Azerbaijani: “ینکتون، گونئی داکوتا”
- Spanish: “Yankton”
- Swedish: “Yankton”
- Tamil: “யங்க்டோன்”
- Tatar: “Янктон”
- Telugu: “యాన్క్ టన్”
- Thai: “แยงก์ตัน”
- Turkish: “Yankton, Güney Dakota”
- Turkish: “Yankton”
- Ukrainian: “Янктон”
- Urdu: “یانکٹن، جنوبی ڈکوٹا”
- Urdu: “یانکٹن”
- Uzbek: “Yankton”
- Vietnamese: “Yankton”
- Volapük: “Yankton”
- Waray (Philippines): “Yankton, South Dakota”
- Waray (Philippines): “Yankton”
- Welsh: “Yankton, De Dakota”
- Welsh: “Yankton”
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