Great Plains | |
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Blooming rabbitbrush on the Great Plains Prairie dog native to Great Plains, crucial keystone species North Dakota primitive lush Prairie Redds Great plains river habitat Mixed plains grass prairie near Fort Smith, Montana Missouri River valley in central North Dakota | |
Coordinates: 40°N 100°W / 40°N 100°W | |
Location | Canada and the United States |
Area | |
• Total | 1,100,000 sq mi (2,800,000 km2) |
Dimensions | |
• Length | 2,000 mi (3,200 km) |
• Width | 500 mi (800 km) |
The Great Plains, sometimes simply "the Plains", is a broad expanse of flatland in North America. It is located just to the east of the Rocky Mountains, much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland. It is the western part of the Interior Plains, which also include the mixed grass prairie, the tallgrass prairie between the Great Lakes and Appalachian Plateau, and the Taiga Plains and Boreal Plains ecozones in Northern Canada. Great Plains or Western Plains is also used to describe the ecoregion of the Great Plains, or alternatively the western portion of the Great Plains.
The Great Plains lies across both Central United States and Western Canada, encompassing:
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