Facts About HI

• Capital: Honolulu (on Oahu)
• Entered Union:
  Aug. 21, 1959 (rank: 50)
• Motto: Ua Mau Ke Ea O Ka Aina I Ka Pono (The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness)
• Flower: hibiscus (yellow)
• Bird: nene (Hawaiian goose)
• Song: “Hawaii Ponoi”
• Nickname: Aloha State
• Origin of Name:
  Uncertain. The islands may have been named by Hawaii Loa, their traditional discoverer. Or they may have been named after Hawaii or Hawaiki, the traditional home of the Polynesians.

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