For other uses, see Great Plains (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with a southwestern portion of the Great Plains, the Llano Estacado, or another geographic region that overlaps the Great Plains, the Midwest.
Great Plains
Plain
Blooming rabbitbrush on the Great Plains
Cole Camp, Missouri is known for tall expansive flower prairies
Prairie dog native to Great Plains, crucial keystone species
North Dakota primitive lush Prairie
Bison, Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Redds Great plains river habitat
Great Plains State Park, Oklahoma
Mixed plains grass prairie near Fort Smith, Montana
Missouri River valley in central North Dakota
A satellite image illustrating the generalized distribution of the Great Plains. The exact boundaries may vary among context or disciplines (e.g. ecology, geology, geopolitical definitions).[1]
Coordinates: 40°N100°W / 40°N 100°W / 40; -100
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:
Most or all of the U.S. states of Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota;
Eastern parts of the U.S. states of Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming;
Parts of the U.S. states of New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas;
Sometimes western parts of Iowa, Minnesota, and Missouri;
The southern portions of the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
^Wishart, David J. 2004. The Great Plains Region, In: Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, pp. xiii-xviii. ISBN 0-8032-4787-7
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