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  11. Hawaii
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  22. Michigan
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  26. Montana
  27. Nebraska
  28. Nevada
  29. New Hampshire
  30. New Jersey
  31. New Mexico
  32. New York
  33. North Carolina
  34. North Dakota
  35. Ohio
  36. Oklahoma
  37. Oregon
  38. Pennsylvania
  39. Rhode Island
  40. South Carolina
  41. South Dakota
  42. Tennessee
  43. Texas
  44. Utah
  45. Vermont
  46. Virginia
  47. Washington
  48. West Virginia
  49. Wisconsin
  50. Wyoming
Internet Factoids
Idaho
Name: Made up by lobbyist George M. Willing. He told Congress it was an Indian word that meant gem of the mountains
Motto: "Esto Perpetua"
Nikename: The Gem State
Statehood: July 3, 1890, the 43rd state
Capital: Boise
Oldest City:
Highest Point: 12,662 feet (3,859 meters) above sea level, Borah Peak
Lowest Point: 710 feet (216.4 meters) sea level, Snake River

State Symbols

Colors:
Flower:Syringa (Philadelphus lewisii)
Bird: Mountain Bluebird (Sialia arctcia)
Tree:Western White Pine (Pinus Monticola pinaceae)
Horse:Appaloosa
Insect:Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus)
Fruit: Huckleberry (Vaccinium membranaceum)
Vegetable:Potato
Amphibian:Spotted Newt (Notophthalmus viridescens)
Fish: Cutthroat Trout
Raptor: Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)
Dance:Square Dance
Fossil:the Hagerman Horse Fossil
Gem: Idaho Star Garnet

State Songs

Song:""Here We Have Idaho" by Sallie Hume Douglas, Albert J.Tompkins, and McKinley Helm

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