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South Dakota, nicknamed the Coyote State and the Sunshine State, is one of the Midwestern states, with the Missouri River making up a part of its southeastern boundary, and the Red River, a part of its north-eastern boundary. The state entered the Union in, 1889, as the 40th state.
Fertile farmlands and grazing lands have made South Dakota an economy that is dominated by farming and ranching, but the 1990s saw a turn towards the increasing importance of tourism and other service sectors such as South Dakota auto insurance, South Dakota life insurance, South Dakota health insurance, South Dakota Home Insurance, to the state economy. South Dakota has of the nation’s largest gold mines, as well as considerable uranium, copper, lead, silver, and oil. Forestry is significant, and wood for timber and pulp is made from commercial species like Ponderosa pine and cottonwood.
The major manufacturing products are food products, industrial machinery, electronic goods, metal products, precision instruments, and transport equipment, with printing and publishing being other important sectors. These major industries also require employers to provide the appropriate types of coverage their employees need in the form of South Dakota health insurance and South Dakota life insurance.
South Dakota has an area of 77,121 square miles. The physical geography of the state can be divided into three main regions -- the Central Lowland, the Great Plains, and the Black Hills. The Central Lowland region is full of glacial plains, and a large number of lakes and ponds. The Great Plains have rolling plains as well as deep valleys the Missouri River tributaries. The Black Hills are granite peaks rising to some 4,000 ft with sharp encircling ridges of sedimentary rock. The main rivers are the Missouri and its tributaries, the James, Big Sioux, Red, and Minnesota. South Dakota has glacial lakes, like Lake Traverse and Big Stone Lake. The climate is continental.
Hot summers and harsh winters are the norm with semi-arid conditions in the western part of the state. It is the harsh winters in the state that prompt residents to insure their homes and automobiles through South Dakota home insurance and South Dakota auto insurance. It is imperative that residents maintain adequate coverage to ensure that their homes and cars are protected in the event of bad weather and storms, which are frequent in parts of the state. Additionally it is important that inhabitants in the state maintain South Dakota health insurance and South Dakota life insurance. All of these policies are available at reasonable rates in the states. |
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