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Iowa

Statehood: 1846; 29th state

Population (as of July 2016): 3,134,693

Nickname: The Hawkeye State

State bird: eastern goldenfinch

State flower: wild rose

Capital: Des Moines

Identity card on Iowa

The biggest city of Iowa is Des Moines, there are 214,133 inhabitants ( in 2020 ). It's too the most famous city. Iowa produces the most corn in the nation. Iowa is the top U.S. producer of this energy source. The most famous dishes are sour cream raisin pie, Iowa ham balls, scotchroos, maid rite sandwishes...

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Information on Iowa

Iowa dishes pictures

The first people came to what's now Iowa at least 12,000 years ago. Thousands of years later, Native American tribes including the Dakota Sioux, Illini, Ioway,Otoe and Missouria lived on the land. Experts don't agree on how Iowa got it's name

History of Iowa

Red foxes, thirteen-lined ground squirrels, least weasels and white-tailed deer are among Iowa's most common mammals.

Wildlife in Iowa