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Section sizes

Section size for North Dakota (49 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	9,779	9,779
History	46	19,225
Pre-colonial history	3,260	3,260
European exploration and colonization	1,393	1,393
Settlement and statehood	6,113	6,113
20th and 21st centuries	8,413	8,413
Geography	10,983	15,141
Climate	4,158	4,158
Demographics	17	32,769
Population	5,457	5,457
Race and ethnicity	18,406	18,406
Native American tribes	502	502
Languages	2,130	2,130
Religion	6,257	6,257
Economy	11,476	32,108
Agriculture	6,736	6,736
Energy	6,113	6,113
Tourism	3,614	3,614
Health care	4,169	4,169
Culture	112	10,009
Native American First Nations	1,210	1,210
Pow wows	1,492	1,492
Norwegian and Icelandic influences	1,703	1,703
Germans from Russia	1,568	1,568
Fine and performing arts	567	567
Entertainment	1,781	1,781
Cuisine	49	49
Sports	1,527	1,527
Media	5,138	5,138
Education	14	3,536
Higher education	2,121	2,121
Primary and secondary education	1,401	1,401
Emergency services	2,111	2,111
Transportation	3,782	3,782
Law and government	1,587	14,176
Executive	1,355	1,355
Legislative	419	419
Judicial	2,294	2,294
Indian tribes and reservations	943	943
Federal	907	907
Politics	2,898	2,898
State taxes	3,773	3,773
Notable people	3,930	3,930
See also	206	206
Notes	47	47
References	29	29
Bibliography	4,422	5,227
Primary sources	805	805
External links	1,673	1,673
Total	158,886	158,886

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Brendan Rodenberg (10 December 2022). "What's North Dakota known for, according to its Wikipedia page?". KX NEWS. Although it may not have any real effect on our own life, it's interesting to see what the world thinks of when they first picture our state. Wikipedia is a powerful tool that many use to get their first looks at topics across all of humanity's learning. The words we choose to represent ourselves carry power, and if we want to be known for our natural resources, all signs indicate we're doing things right.

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Local government

This article could use a description of how towns and cities and counties and townships are governed, or a link to an article that does. -- Beland (talk) 22:16, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

North Dakota Statehood Challenge?

Basically, because of the language in the US Constitution, there's a serious challenge to whether North Dakota was legally a state until 2012, when the state corrected the issue. Shouldn't this topic be relevant to this article? 2601:147:4100:B90:119D:608B:F62D:841B (talk) 14:19, 30 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

2022 American Values Atlas Data

Hi, @TheLionHasSeen:.

Click "list"
Scroll down.

The data is there. There's a glitch (on some devices?) where it says N/A. KlayCax (talk) 18:21, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Data:

White evangelical Protestant: 21

Mainline Protestant: 28

Hispanic Protestant: 2

Other non-white Protestant: 1

White Catholic: 28

Jewish: 1

Buddhist: 1

Unaffilated: 12

New Age: 6

21 + 28 + 2 + 1 = 52 for Protestantism. KlayCax (talk) 18:28, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Religion Graph

The graph for the religion section is extremely confusing, it lists New Age being 6% of the religion and sites this American Values Atlas. There are almost no New Age institutions with that big of a traction within this state, and then the paragraphs accompanying it site the Pew Research Center which was the old graph and was much more accurate to the states demographics, so what is this new graph then? Los Pobre (talk) 19:20, 11 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Does the reference refer to New Age specifically, or new religious movements in general? Walt Yoder (talk) 20:19, 11 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
In general, in all my years in this state there hasn’t been anything remotely prominent enough to be showing 6% of the population. Los Pobre (talk) 14:34, 12 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The 2020 PRRI study (National overview) just has "Another religion" rather than trying to separate "other religions" from "new-age religions". Without a definition of what this means (and the 2022 site doesn't have any additional details), we should group "New age" into "other". Walt Yoder (talk) 22:11, 12 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Why was the data changed in the first place? This PRRI one seems very odd in percentages compared to the Pew Research graph, again, the 6% New Age and furthermore 1% Buddhism (I believe 1%, I just remembering seeing it) was marked on there, compared to Islam, which there is an actual viewable presence of in areas like Fargo or Grand Forks yet wasn't even on the graph by my memory. Los Pobre (talk) 01:59, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]