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It is very flat, and is quite fertile. This area of North Dakota is mostly farm country, with wheat, sugarbeets, and maize as staple crops, and along with other crops and livestock, cover the area. The valley contains the lowest point in North Dakota which is the Red River at Pembina, at 750 feet (230 m) above sea level.
Badwater Basin, Death Valley, California – lowest surface point in all U.S. territory and North America, at −279 feet (−85 Salton Sea , California , 33°19′59″N 115°50′3″W / 33.33306°N 115.83417°W / 33.33306; -115.83417 ( Salton Sea ) – lowest lake in all U.S. territory and North America, at −226 feet (
Kingman Reef high point – less than 7 feet (2 m) [92] Midway Atoll, Sand Island high point – 50 feet (15 m) [92] – The highest point of the U.S. minor outlying islands in the Pacific Ocean. Navassa Island high point – 280 feet (85 m) [91] – The highest point of all the U.S. minor outlying islands. Palmyra Atoll high point – 10 feet ...
lowest lying national capital in the world, Caspian Depression: 3: Atyrau Airport: Kazakhstan: −22 m (−72 ft) lowest international airport, Caspian Depression: 4= Lammefjord: Denmark: −7 m (−23 ft) 4= Zuidplaspolder: Netherlands: −7 m (−23 ft) Netherlands coastal provinces (−1 to −7 m) (−3 to −23 ft) 6= Haarlemmermeer ...
The terrain slopes to the east and north; its highest point is on the lower western boundary line, at 1,302 feet (397 m) above sea level. [12] The county has a total area of 1,121 square miles (2,900 km 2 ), of which 1,119 square miles (2,900 km 2 ) is land and 2.7 square miles (7.0 km 2 ) (0.2%) is water. [ 13 ]
Extreme points are portions of a region which are further north, south, east, or west than any other. This is a list of extreme points in U.S. states , territories , and the District of Columbia . [ 1 ]
The geographic center of the North American continent is located at , about 6 miles west of Balta in Pierce County, North Dakota, United States. The North American pole of inaccessibility is located at , about eleven miles southeast of the town of Kyle on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Bennett County, South Dakota, United States, 1650 km ...
North Dakota (/ d ə ˈ k oʊ t ə / ⓘ də-KOH-tə) [4] is a landlocked U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota Sioux.It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north and by the U.S. states of Minnesota to the east, South Dakota to the south, and Montana to the west.