North Dakota

American  

noun

1. a state in the northern central United States. 70,665 sq. mi. (183,020 sq. km). Bismarck. ND (for use with zip code), N. Dak.

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North Dakota British  

noun

1. Abbreviation: N. Dak..   N.D..   ND.  a state of the western US: mostly undulating prairies and plains, rising from the Red River valley in the east to the Missouri plateau in the west, with the infertile Bad Lands in the extreme west. Capital: Bismarck. Pop: 633 837 (2003 est). Area: 183 019 sq km (70 664 sq miles)

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North Dakota Cultural  

1. State in the north-central United States, bordered by Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada, to the north; Minnesota to the east; South Dakota to the south; and Montana to the west. Its capital is Bismarck, and its largest city is Fargo.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• North Dakotan
  adjective

Example Sentences

It includes part of Grand Forks, a growing college town home to the University of North Dakota.

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2026

A woman in North Dakota was found to have fraudulently received $128,601 in SSI payments — but that figure was collected over 10 years, averaging fraud of $12,860 a year.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

That manipulative trend continued Monday with the Mississippi and North Dakota orders.

From Slate • May 19, 2026

Last week federal Judge Daniel Traynor blocked a North Dakota law that sought to exploit 340B to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars from drug makers to hospitals and pharmacies.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

At this moment in North Dakota I had a reluctance to drive on that amounted to fear.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck