Capital City: Bismarck
Admission to Statehood: November 2, 1889
Area Code: 701
Border States: Minnesota, Montana, South Dakota
International Border: Canada
Motto: “Liberty and Union Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.”
Nicknames: Peace Garden State, Flickertail State, Roughrider State

State Symbols

Beverage: Milk
Bird:  Western Meadowlark
Dance: Square Dance
Equine: Nokota Horse
Fish: Northern Pike
Flag: Dark blue field with a bald eagle holding an olive branch and a bundle of arrows in its claws
Flower: Wild Prairie Rose
Fossil: Teredo Petrified Wood
Fruit: Chokecherry
Grass: Western Wheatgrass
March: Flickertail March
Tree: American Elm

Famous North Dakotans:

Sitting Bull – Lakota Sioux spiritual leader
Theodore Roosevelt –  U.S. President
Lawrence Welk – Entertainer
Roger Maris – Baseball homerun king
Eric Sevareid – Television commentator, news analyst and author
Louis L’Amour – Author and screenwriter
Peggy Lee – Actress, singer, songwriter
Angie Dickinson – Actress
Harold Schafer – Founder of the Gold Seal Company
Phil Jackson – New York Knicks player
Bobby Vee – Top hit recording artist
Darin Erstad – Professional baseball player, Los Angeles Angels and Chicago White Sox
Travis Hafner – Professional baseball player, Cleveland Indians

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