Dakota
Dakota may refer to: 

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

Places
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

Transportation
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

See also
All pages with titles beginning with Dakota 
All pages with titles containing Dakota
North Dakota, a U.S. state
South Dakota, a U.S. state
The Dakotas (disambiguation)
Dakota War of 1862, a conflict between the US and bands of Eastern Sioux
Lost Dakota, a small, remote exclave of Dakota Territory