Bad Lands, Badlands - an eroded and barren region in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska

Badlands National Park - a national park in South Dakota having multicolored peaks and spires resulting from erosion; fossil sites

Wind Cave National Park - a national park in South Dakota featuring bison herds and limestone caverns

American state - one of the 50 states of the United States

U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, U.S. - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776

Aberdeen - a town in northeastern South Dakota

capital of South Dakota, Pierre - capital of the state of South Dakota; located in central South Dakota on the Missouri river

Rapid City - a town in southwestern South Dakota in the eastern part of the Black Hills

Sioux Falls - largest city in South Dakota; located in southeastern South Dakota

Black Hills - mountains in western South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming

Big Sioux River - a river that rises in northeastern South Dakota and flows southward to join the Missouri River at Sioux City, Iowa

Black Hills - mountains in southwestern South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming; sacred to the Sioux (whites settling in the Black Hills led to the Battle of Little Bighorn); site of Mount Rushmore

James River, James - a river that rises in North Dakota and flows southward across South Dakota to the Missouri

Little Missouri, Little Missouri River - a river that rises in northeastern Wyoming and flows through Montana and South Dakota to join the Missouri River in North Dakota

Mount Rushmore, Mt. Rushmore, Rushmore - a mountain in the Black Hills of South Dakota; the likenesses of Washington and Jefferson and Lincoln and Roosevelt are carved on it