Description: South Dakota has Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse, Jewel Cave, Wind Cave, the Corn Palace, Oyate Trail, great hunting and fishing, history and it's also a great place to live work, and play.
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Dakota is derived from the Sioux Indian word for "friend." The area of South Dakota is 77,047 sq mi (199,552 sq km), the State Bird is the ring-necked pheasant, State Flower is the pasqueflower, and the State Tree is the Black Hills spruce.
Did you know that South Dakota has two of the world's longest caves? Jewel Cave is the third longest cave in the world and Wind Cave is the fifth longest cave in the world. This size ranking changes periodically as cave exploration around the world is ongoing. Both of these caves reside in a limestone layer that is said to be millions of years old. That layer is called the Paha Sapa formation. Paha Sapa is a Lakota word that means hills of black or Black Hills. Did you known that there was an uplift from de
South Dakota is also the home of the Badlands and the world's only Corn Palace . The Badlands contain one of the worlds largest deposits of fossil remains.