ND American plate atlas

North Dakota

The Peace Garden State

Meet the plate, people, places, and stories behind one of the road-trip game’s fifty-one essential finds.

North Dakota license plate
The North Dakota plate in the game

Capital

Bismarck

State bird

Western meadowlark

Joined the Union

November 2, 1889

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A quick trip through time

The North Dakota story

North Dakota’s history centers on the Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, and other Native peoples, followed by fur trade, railroads, homesteading, agriculture, and energy development.

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Bumper-sized history

About the plate

Peace Garden State and prairie imagery have long made North Dakota plates tiny tributes to northern plains landscapes.