Information... all from source: Microsoft Encarta Online
Capital City: Des Moines
Nickname: Hawkeye State
Motto: "Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain."
Admission to Statehood: December 28, 1846
Area: Land 55875 sq-mi, Water 401 sq-mi.
Population: approx. 2,926,324
Number of Counties: 99
State Bird: Eastern Goldfinch (designated in 1933)
State Flower: Wild Prairie Rose (designated in 1897)
State Tree: Oak (designated in 1961)
State Rock: Geode (designated in 1967)
Iowa, state in the northern part of the central United States. It lies in the heart of the North American continent, in the region known as the Midwest. Iowa, with its fertile prairie lands and heavily agricultural economy devoted to raising grain and livestock, is often considered the typical Midwestern state. Iowa entered the Union on December 28, 1846, as the 29th state. Des Moines is the state’s capital and largest city.
Iowa is, in large part, an efficient, large-scale production line for the nation’s food. From rich black earth to waving corn to fattened hog and steer foodstuffs, the entire process is carried out on a grand scale. Most of the corn and other grains are fed to Iowa’s hogs and cattle. Then, factories take over to pack the meat, process any grain that remains, and produce the equipment to till the soil, harvest the corn, run the farms, and process the farm products. Other factories produce goods that have little or nothing to do with agriculture, such as ball-point pens, washing machines, and office furniture. In value of annual economic production, Iowa is primarily an industrial state, but much of its industrial output remains based on farm production.
The state’s name was taken from the Iowa River, which in turn was named for the Iowa people, the Native Americans who lived in the region during early European exploration. Iowa is called the Hawkeye State. The name is believed to be a tribute to Chief Black Hawk, a leader of the Sac people who were relocated to Iowa after unsuccessful resistance to white settlement.
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