South Dakota is considered to be one of the Midwestern states and was admitted to the Union on November 2nd 1889. It has 754,844 inhabitants which puts it on the 46th place in the US, and has an average per-capita personal income of US$26,894.
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South Dakota is considered to be one of the Midwestern states and was admitted to the Union on November 2nd 1889. It has 754,844 inhabitants which puts it on the 46th place in the US, and has an average per-capita personal income of US$26,894.
South Dakota has had people living on its lands for at least several thousand years. Many aboriginal tribes lived there but, by the early 1800s the Sioux (Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota) were dominant. Settlement by Americans and Europeans was, by this time, increasing rapidly, and in 1858, the Yankton Sioux signed the 1858 Treaty, ceding most of present-day eastern South Dakota to the United States. Two of eastern South Dakota's largest present-day cities were founded by two land speculators, one Sioux Falls in 1856 and Yankton in 1859.
The population of South Dakota declined by more than 7 percent between 1930 and 1940 due to the combination of several economic and climatic conditions. A lack of rainfall, extremely high temperatures and over-cultivation of farmland produced a series of catastrophic dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands. When the U.S. entered into World War II in 1941, the economic stability returned as demand for the state's agricultural and industrial products grew as the nation mobilized for war.
The capitol of this state is Pierre, it was made such since November 11th 1889, but the largest city is Sioux Falls. It is home to 66 counties and it’s bordered by Iowa and Minnesota on the east, Nebraska on the south, Wyoming and Montana on the west and North Dakota on the north.
One of the Mississippi River’s tributaries is the Missouri River which runs through the central part of South Dakota and it’s the largest and longer river in the state. This state has many divergences of landscapes such as glaciers, fertile farm country, deep canyons, rolling plains, low hills, glacial lakes and valleys among other landscapes.
It has a climate described as Continental with four very distinct seasons ranging from typically very cold winters to hot summers. The average high temperature is close to 90°F although it often cools down to close to 60 °F at night. South Dakota has severe hot, dry spells in the summer with the temperature climbing above 100 °F for the high temperature. Winters are cold with high temperatures in January averaging below freezing and low temperatures averaging below 10 °F in most of the state. As with North Dakota, South Dakota also has frequent thunderstorms which can be severe with high winds, thunder, and hail.
South Dakota has national parks and monuments, which are located in the southern part of the State. The most important are the Badlands National Park and Wind Cave National Park. Mount Rushmore National Memorial is also famous because it represents the first 150 years of the history of the United States of America. It has 60-foot sculptures of the heads of former U.S. Presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.
South Dakota’s economy is based mainly on agriculture, but also has other industries like tourism which contributes greatly to the income of the state’s economy. The mayor agriculture products are, beef, wheat, corn (maize), pork, wool, soybeans, oats, mutton, alfalfa, sunflowers, and poultry.
Transportation there is comprised by two mayor interstate highways, one runs east to west and the other one runs north and south. It also has several mayor US highways, local airports and many railroads.
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