Dakota Explained

Dakota may refer to:

• Dakota people, a sub-tribe of the Sioux
  • Dakota language, their language

Dakota may also refer to:

Places

United States

• Dakota, Georgia, an unincorporated community
• Dakota, Illinois, a town
• Dakota, Minnesota, a city
• Dakota, Wisconsin, a town
  • Dakota (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
• Dakota City, Iowa
• Dakota City, Nebraska
• Dakota County, Minnesota
• Dakota County, Nebraska
  • Dakota Formation, a North American geologic unit named for the county
• The Dakotas, a collective term for the states of North and South Dakota
• Dakota Territory (1861–1889)
• Department of Dakota (1866–1911), an administrative district of the U.S. Army

Elsewhere

• Dacota, also spelt Dakota, a town in Aruba

People

• Dakota (given name)
• Dakota (singer), a British singer
• Dakota, a pseudonym of German trance music DJ and producer Markus Schulz

Arts and entertainment

• Dakota North (comics), Marvel Comics character
• Dakota (1988 film), a 1988 film starring Lou Diamond Phillips
• Dakota (1945 film), a 1945 film starring John Wayne
• Dakota (novel), a 2008 book by Martha Grimes
• Dakota (American band), a melodic rock band
• "Dakota" (song), a 2005 UK #1 song by Stereophonics

Brands

• Dakota (cigarette), a brand
• Ritz Dakota Digital, a camera

Sports

• Dakota Bowl, a championship weekend for North Dakota high school football
• SV Dakota, an Aruban football club

Transportation

Air

• Dakota, a military version of the Douglas DC-3
  • Dakota II, Royal Air Force designation of impressed Douglas DC-3 aircraft
  • Douglas C-47 Skytrain or Dakota, a military transport aircraft
• Variants of the Piper Cherokee light aircraft:
  • • • Dakota, Piper Dakota model PA-28-236 Dakota, Piper Turbo Dakota model PA-28-201T

Land

• Dakota MRT station, a Mass Rapid Transit Station in Paya Lebar, Singapore
• Dodge Dakota, light truck
  • Shelby Dakota, a limited-production performance version of the Dodge Dakota Sport pickup truck

Water

• SS Dakota (1877), a British passenger steamship that sank off the coast of Anglesey, Wales in 1877
• SS Dakota, an American ocean liner that sank off Yokohama in 1907

Other uses

• Dakota (fossil), a mummified hadrosaur fossil
• The Dakota, New York City apartment building
• Dakota (Warrenton, Virginia), a historic house
• Dakota Jazz Club, Twin Cities, Minnesota

See also

• • • North Dakota, a U.S. state
• South Dakota, a U.S. state
• The Dakotas (disambiguation)
• Dakota War of 1862, a conflict between the US and bands of Eastern Sioux
• Lost Dakota, a small, remote exclave of Dakota Territory