Dakota

Dakota may refer to:
 * Dakota people, a sub-tribe of the Sioux
 * Dakota language, their language

Dakota  may also refer to:

United States

 * Dakota, Georgia, an unincorporated community
 * Dakota, Illinois, a town
 * Dakota, Minnesota, a city
 * Dakota, Wisconsin, a town
 * Dakota (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
 * Dakota City, Iowa
 * Dakota City, Nebraska
 * Dakota County, Minnesota
 * Dakota County, Nebraska
 * Dakota Formation, a North American geologic unit named for the county
 * The Dakotas, a collective term for the states of North and South Dakota
 * Dakota Territory (1861–1889)
 * Department of Dakota (1866–1911), an administrative district of the U.S. Army

Elsewhere

 * Dacota, also spelt Dakota, a town in Aruba

People

 * Dakota (given name)
 * Dakota (singer), a British singer
 * Dakota, a pseudonym of German trance music DJ and producer Markus Schulz

Arts and entertainment

 * Dakota North (comics), Marvel Comics character
 * Dakota (1988 film), a 1988 film starring Lou Diamond Phillips
 * Dakota (1945 film), a 1945 film starring John Wayne
 * Dakota (novel), a 2008 book by Martha Grimes
 * Dakota (American band), a melodic rock band
 * "Dakota" (song), a 2005 UK #1 song by Stereophonics

Brands

 * Dakota (cigarette), a brand
 * Ritz Dakota Digital, a camera

Sports

 * Dakota Bowl, a championship weekend for North Dakota high school football
 * SV Dakota, an Aruban football club

Air

 * Dakota, a military version of the Douglas DC-3
 * Dakota II, Royal Air Force designation of impressed Douglas DC-3 aircraft
 * Douglas C-47 Skytrain or Dakota, a military transport aircraft
 * Variants of the Piper Cherokee light aircraft:
 * Dakota, Piper Dakota model PA-28-236
 * Dakota, Piper Turbo Dakota model PA-28-201T

Land

 * Dakota MRT station, a Mass Rapid Transit Station in Paya Lebar, Singapore
 * Dodge Dakota, light truck
 * Shelby Dakota, a limited-production performance version of the Dodge Dakota Sport pickup truck

Water

 * SS Dakota (1877), a British passenger steamship that sank off the coast of Anglesey, Wales in 1877
 * SS Dakota, an American ocean liner that sank off Yokohama in 1907

Other uses

 * Dakota (fossil), a mummified hadrosaur fossil
 * The Dakota, New York City apartment building
 * Dakota (Warrenton, Virginia), a historic house
 * Dakota Jazz Club, Twin Cities, Minnesota