Dakota

Dakota may refer to:

People

• Dakota (given name)

Ethnology and linguistics

• Sioux sub-tribes:
  • Eastern Dakota
  • Western Dakota
• Dakota language, either of two regional varieties of the Sioux language

Geography

United States

• North Dakota, a state
• South Dakota, a state
• Dakota, Illinois, a village
• Dakota, Minnesota, a city
• Dakota, Wisconsin, a town
  • Dakota (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
• Dakota City, Iowa
• Dakota City, Nebraska
• Dakota County, Minnesota
• Dakota County, Nebraska

Historic divisions

• Dakota Territory (1861-1889)
• Department of Dakota (1866-1911), an administrative district of the US Army

Music

• Dakota (band), an English pop/rock band
• Dakota (song), a 2005 UK #1 song by Stereophonics
• Dakota Jazz Club, Twin Cities, Minnesota

Entertainment

• Dakota (film), a 1945 film starring John Wayne
• Dakota (1988 film), a 1988 film starring Lou Diamond Phillips
• Da'kota, Millennium Publications Comics character
• Dakota North, Marvel Comics character
• Dakota, fictional midwestern city in stories published by Milestone Comics

Transportation

• Douglas C-47 Skytrain or Dakota, a military transport aircraft
• Dakota II, Royal Air Force designation of impressed Douglas DC-3 aircraft
• Variants of the Piper Cherokee light aircraft:
  • Dakota, Piper Dakota model PA-28-236
  • Dakota, Piper Turbo Dakota model PA-28-201T
• Dodge Dakota, light truck
  • Shelby Dakota, a limited-production performance version of the Dodge Dakota Sport pickup truck
• SS Dakota, an American ocean liner that sank off Yokohama in 1907
• SS Dakota (1877), a British passenger steamship that sank off the coast of Anglesey, Wales in 1877
• Dakota MRT Station, a Mass Rapid Transit Station in Paya Lebar, Singapore

Products

• Ritz Dakota Digital, a camera
• Dakota (cigarette), a brand

Other

• Dakota (fossil), a mummified hadrosaur fossil
• Dakota Formation, a geologic formation in the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains
• The Dakota, New York City apartment building
• DAKOTA (Design Analysis Kit for Optimization and Terascale Applications), a software toolkit
• SV Dakota, an Aruban football club
• Dakota Bowl, a championship weekend for North Dakota high school football

See also

• All pages beginning with "Dakota"
• The Dakotas (disambiguation)
• North Dakota
• South Dakota
• Dakota Junction, Minnesota, an unincorporated community
• Dakota Junction, Nebraska, an unincorporated community
• Dakota War of 1862, a conflict between the US and bands of Eastern Sioux