State Flag: Ohio's flag is the nation's only pennant-shaped flag. It has three red and two white horizontal stripes, and a blue triangle field with seventeen stars representing Ohio's entrance into the Union as the seventeenth state.
Statehood: March 1,1803, seventeenth state
Origin of Name: Named for the Ohio River; the word Ohio comes from the Iroquois word "ohea", translated as "something great", "great river", or "beautiful".
State Capital: Columbus
State Nickname: "Buckeye" state
State Motto: With God, All Things Are Possible
State Flag: Ohio's flag is the nation's only pennant-shaped flag. It has
three red and two white horizontal stripes, and a blue triangle field with
seventeen stars representing Ohio's entrance into the Union as the seventeenth
state.
State Bird: Cardinal
State Fossil: trilobite
State Flower: Scarlet carnation
State Tree: Buckeye
State Insect: Ladybug
State Beverage: Tomato juice
Population Density: 261 persons per sq.mi.
Population Distribution: 73 percent of people live in cities or towns. Clevland is Ohio's largest city. Nearly one-fifth of all Ohioans live in Clevland's sprawling metropolitan area along Lake Erie. The Columbus and Cincinati metropolitan areas are each home to more than one million people.
Highest Point: Camp Hill in Logan city, 1,550 ft. above sea level
Lowest Point: Where the Ohio and Miami rivers meet, in Hamilton County, 433 ft., 132 m, above sea level
Greatest Distances: North to south-210 mi., 338 km, east to west-230 mi., 370 km.
Area: 41,330- sq.mi., 107,045 km.
Rank in Area Among the States: thirty-fifth state in area