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Winter-weary East Coast hit with another storm as temperatures plunge elsewhere • Feb. 19, 2025, 10:02 PM ET (AP)
Native American activist Leonard Peltier, freed from prison, is welcomed on North Dakota reservation • Feb. 19, 2025, 7:52 PM ET (AP)
Polar vortex makes much of US colder than Greenland, but warmth is coming. Then more cold • Feb. 19, 2025, 4:24 PM ET (AP)
Arctic air sweeping south over Plains shatters record temperatures in North Dakota • Feb. 18, 2025, 7:52 PM ET (AP)
Leonard Peltier leaves prison after Biden commuted his sentence in the killing of two FBI agents • Feb. 18, 2025, 4:45 PM ET (AP)

Facts

Also Known As Peace Garden State
Capital Bismarck
Population1 (2020) 779,094; (2023 est.) 783,926
Governor Kelly Armstrong (Republican)
Date Of Admission November 2, 1889
U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (Republican) • John Hoeven (Republican)
State Nickname Flickertail State • Sioux State • Peace Garden State
State Motto "Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable"
State Bird western meadowlark
State Flower wild prairie rose
State Song “North Dakota Hymn”
Seats In U.S. House Of Representatives 1 (of 435)
Time Zone Mountain (GMT − 7 hours) • Central (GMT − 6 hours)
Total Area (Sq Km) 183,108
Total Area (Sq Mi) 70,698
1Excluding military abroad.

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