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North Dakota

Held by badlandsbotanist under the Green Party flag, for $5.

“You drilled it, flared it and called it stewardship. The prairie was here first”

badlandsbotanist paid $5 to put that there.

Take it for

$8

Take it

The place

Joined 1889 · 39th state · Not yet a state in the Civil War · Central, southwest Mountain time

North Dakota is the least visited state, which is most of its charm. It is wheat, canola and sunflowers, an oil boom in the west that arrived suddenly and reshaped whole towns, and the only state-owned bank in the country, founded in 1919 by farmers who were tired of out-of-state lenders. Go for Theodore Roosevelt National Park in the badlands, where the future president went to grieve and came back a conservationist, and for the northern lights, which are routine here.

The only state that owns its own bank, founded in 1919 and still running.

Eat

Knoephla soup

Drink

Fargo Brewing

Listen

Lynn Anderson

Bird

Western meadowlark

Flower

Wild prairie rose

Tree

American elm

Grows

Wheat, Canola, Sunflowers

National parks

  • Theodore Roosevelt

The actual state · 2025

Population
799,358
Land area
68,994 mi²
GDP per head
$102,436
Median household
$80,132
Joined
Joined 1889
Civil War
Not yet a state

Largest cities

  • 1Fargo136K
  • 2Bismarck78K
  • 3Grand Forks60K
  • 4Minot47K
  • 5West Fargo41K

Race

  • White83.9%
  • Native5.4%
  • Black4.2%

Hispanic or Latino5.7%

Counted across all races, so it overlaps the figures above.

1 claim

  1. North Dakota goes Green Party. badlandsbotanist paid $5 and nobody stopped them.

    “You drilled it, flared it and called it stewardship. The prairie was here first”

    · $5