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    Great Plains
    /ˌɡrāt ˈplānz/
    • 1. a vast area of plains to the east of the Rocky Mountains in North America, extending from the valleys of the Mackenzie River in Canada to southern Texas.

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    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.

  4. Great Plains, vast high plateau of semiarid grassland that is a major region of North America. It lies between the Rio Grande in the south and the delta of the Mackenzie River at the Arctic Ocean in the north and between the Interior Lowland and the Canadian Shield on the east and the Rocky Mountains on the west.

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  5. Great Plains definition: a semiarid region E of the Rocky Mountains, in the U.S. and Canada.. See examples of GREAT PLAINS used in a sentence.

  6. The Great Plains are the broad expanse of prairie and steppe that lie east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada. This area covers parts of the U.S. states of Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.

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  7. The Great Plains is a region of North America with diverse physical and cultural characteristics, defined by climatic variability and transitional ecology. Learn about the history, geography, and culture of the Great Plains from the Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, a collaborative project of scholars and experts.

  8. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. The Great Plains is the name of a high plateau of grasslands that is located in parts of the United States and Canada in North America and has an area of approximately 1,125,000 square miles (2,900,000 square km).

  9. Great Plains, Continental slope of central North America. It stretches from the Rio Grande at the U.S.-Mexico border in the south to the Mackenzie River delta along the Arctic Ocean in the north and from the Interior Lowlands and the Canadian Shield in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west.

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