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| State nickname: "The Hawkeye State" | |||||
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| Capital | Des Moines | ||||
| Largest City | Des Moines | ||||
| Governor | Thomas Vilsack | ||||
| Area - Total - % water | Ranked 26th 145,743 km2 0.71% | ||||
| Population - Total ( 2000) - Density | Ranked 30th 2,926,324 20/km2 | ||||
| Admittance into Union - Order - Date | 29th December 28, 1846Events January 5 The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom February 5 The Oregon Spectator becomes the first newspaper on the Pacific coast of the United States. February 10 Many Mormons | ||||
| Time zoneTime Zone was also an old historical computer game. Time zones are areas of the Earth that have adopted the same standard time. Formerly, people used local solar time (originally apparent and then mean), resulting in time differing slightly from town to t | Central: UTC−6/ −5Daylight saving time (also called DST or Summer Time is the local time a region is designated for a portion of the year, usually an hour forward from its standard official time. It is a system intended to "save" daylight (as opposed to wasting it by, say, | ||||
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40°36'N to 43°30'N
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320 km
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| ISO 3166-2ISO 3166-2 is the second part of the ISO 3166 standard. It is a geocode system created for coding the names of subdivisions of countries ( subnational entities) and dependent areas. The purpose of the standard is to establish a worldwide series of short a: | US-IA | ||||
Iowa is the 29th state of the United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in, having joined the union on December 28, 1846. The official name of the state is "State of Iowa", and the U.S. Post Office abbreviation for the state is IA.
The state is named for the Native American Iowa people.
In the summer of 1673, French explorers Louis Joliet and Father Jacques Marquette traveled down the Mississippi River past the land that was to become the state of Iowa. The two explorers, along with their five crewmen, stepped ashore near where the Iowa River flowed into the Mississippi. It is believed that the 1673 voyage marked the first time that white people visited the region of Iowa. After surveying the surrounding area, the Frenchmen recorded in their journals that Iowa appeared lush, green, and fertile. For the next 300 years, thousands of white settlers would agree with these early visitors: Iowa was indeed lush and green; moreover, its soil was highly productive. In fact, much of the history of the Hawkeye State is inseparably intertwined with its agricultural productivity. Iowa stands today as one of the leading agricultural states in the nation, a fact foreshadowed by the observation of the early French explorers.
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