Nebraska was the 37 th state in the USA ; it became a state on March 1, 1867 .
State Abbreviation - NE
State Capital - Lincoln
Largest City - Omaha
Area - 77,358 square miles [Nebraska is the 16th biggest state in the USA]
Population - 1,711,263 (as of 2000) [Nebraska is the 38th most populous state in the USA]
Name for Residents - Nebraskans
Major Industries - farming (corn, soybeans, wheat, sorghum), grain processing, meat-packing the Air Force Strategic Air Command,
Presidential Birthplace - Gerald Rudolph Ford was born in Omaha on July 14, 1913 (Ford was the 38th US President, serving from 1974 to 1977).
Major Rivers - Missouri River, Niobrara River, Platte River, Republican River
Major Lakes - Lewis and Clark Lake, Harlan County Lake, Lake C.W. McConaughty
Highest Point - Panorama Point - 5,426 feet (1,654 m) above sea level
Bordering States - Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, South Dakota, Wyoming
Origin of the Name Nebraska - The name Nebraska is from an Oto Indian word that means "flat water" (referring to the Platte River, which means "flat river" in French)
State Nickname - Cornhusker State, The Tree Planters' State
State Motto - "Equality before the law"
State Song - Beautiful Nebraska
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Adams
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Arthur
Harrisburg (Banner)
Blaine
Boone
Box Butte
Boyd
Brown
Buffalo
Burt
Butler
Cass
Cedar
Chase
Cherry
Cheyenne
Clay
Colfax
Cuming
Custer
Dakota
Dawes
Dawson
Deuel
Dixon
Dodge
Douglas
Dundy
Fillmore
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Frontier
Furnas
Gage
Garden
Burwell (Garfield)
Gosper
Grant
Greeley
Hall
Hamilton
Harlan
Hayes
Hitchcock
Holt
Mullen (Hooker)
Howard
Jefferson
Johnson
Kearney
Keith
Keya Paha
Kimball
Knox
Lancaster
Lincoln
Stapleton (Logan)
Taylor (Loup)
Madison
Tryon (McPherson)
Merrick
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Nance
Nemaha
Nuckolls
Otoe
Pawnee
Perkins
Phelps
Pierce
Platte
Polk
Red Willow
Richardson
Rock
Saline
Sarpy
Saunders
Scotts Bluff
Seward
Sheridan
Sherman
Harrison (Sioux)
Stanton
Thayer
Thomas
Thurston
Valley
Washington
Wayne
Webster
Wheeler
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