- The official state beverage of North Dakota is milk.
- The state passed a bill in 1987 making English the official state language.
- North Dakota has the lowest unemployment rate in the country (3.2%).
- North Dakota was ranked as the best-run state in the country in 2012.
- North Dakota is the least-visited state in the country.
- North Dakota grows the most sunflowers in the USA.
- Dakota means “friend” or “ally” in the Sioux language.
- Fargo, North Dakota, hosted the largest pancake feed in the world.
- The state has the highest percentage of the church-going population in the USA.
- Less than 1% of the state is forest. That’s the smallest amount of any state.
- Rhode Island could fit inside North Dakota 46 times.