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South Dakota
South Dakota is dominated by the Black Hills, Mount Rushmore National Memorial, and the badlands of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, home to the Oglala Lakota Sioux.
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Tennessee
Tennessee is best known as the home of country music in Nashville, the birthplace of blues and rock 'n' roll in Memphis, and the most-visited US national park (Great Smoky Mountains).
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Michigan
Michigan is divided into two peninsulas surrounded by four of the five Great Lakes, with the city of Detroit famous for the auto industry and Motown music.
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Minnesota
Minnesota is famed for its 11,800 lakes (more than '10,000'), the headwaters of the Mississippi River, the Mall of America, and a Scandinavian-American heritage.
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Mississippi
Mississippi is a Deep South state on the Gulf of Mexico, named for the great river that forms its western border, with deep ties to blues music born in the Mississippi Delta.
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Missouri
Missouri is at the centre of the United States, with the iconic Gateway Arch in St. Louis, world-renowned barbecue traditions in Kansas City, and the boyhood home of Mark Twain.
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Texas
Texas is the second-largest US state by both area and population, an independent republic from 1836-1845, with cultural roots blending American, Mexican and German heritage, and a major oil-and-gas economy.
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U.S. Minor Outlying Islands
The U.S. Minor Outlying Islands is a statistical designation for nine unincorporated US insular areas — eight Pacific atolls (Baker, Howland, Jarvis, Johnston, Kingman Reef, Midway, Palmyra, Wake) and one Caribbean island (Navassa). Most are uninhabited national wildlife refuges; Wake and Johnston have transient military personnel.
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Baker Island
Baker Island is an uninhabited equatorial atoll in the central Pacific Ocean, about halfway between Hawaii and Australia. Claimed by the United States in 1856 under the Guano Islands Act for its phosphate deposits, it is now a National Wildlife Refuge with abundant seabird colonies and pristine coral reefs.