1. North Dakota is a state on the northern Great Plains, populated largely by the descendants of Yankees, Norwegians, and German-Russians.
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4. North Dakota has the world's largest cow statue, Salem Sue, which stands more than 38 feet high.
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6. North Dakota lies in the western part of the northcentral United States and is bordered by South Dakota, Montana, Minnesota, and Canada.
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8. The University of North Dakota competes in collegiate ice hockey, winning National Collegiate Athletic Association championships seven times, most recently in 2000.
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13. In 2006, North Dakota ranked 48th population in the United States with an estimated total of 635,867 residents.
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15. North Dakota has the largest sharptailed grouse population in the United States and has more wild ducks that any other state except Alaska.
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31. North Dakota is one of the most rural states in the United States, with over half of its population living outside metropolitan areas.
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34. North Dakota lies in the northwestern continental interior of the United States.
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35. North Dakota has two major rivers: the Red River of the North, flowing northward into Canada; and the Missouri River, which enters in the northwest and then flows east and, joined by the Yellowstone River, southeast into South Dakota.
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36. North Dakota is bordered on the n by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba; on the e by Minnesota; on the s by South Dakota; and on the w by Montana.
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42. North Dakota is bordered by Canada in the north, Minnesota in the east, South Dakota in the south, and Montana in the west.
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49. North Dakota usually ranks No 1 in the nation when it comes to sunflower production, but wet weather and flooding had it coming in second behind South Dakota in both 2011 and 2013.
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55. The current Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota is Brent Sanford, who is the President of the Senate.
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56. North Dakota expanded Medicaid in 2014, and its health insurance exchange is the federal site, HealthCare.
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62. North Dakota was a known popular destination for immigrant farmers and general laborers and their families, mostly from Norway, Sweden, Germany and the United Kingdom.
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67. North Dakota is a Midwestern state of the United States.
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