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Great Plains

broad expanse of flat land west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains

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The Great Plains is a vast, flat region of land stretching from the Mississippi River in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west. This area matters because it encompasses some of North America's most productive agricultural land and has shaped the settlement patterns and economies of the central United States.

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The Great Plains is a broad expanse of flatland in North America. The region stretches east of the Rocky Mountains, much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland. They are the western part of the Interior Plains, which 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 the ecoregion of the Great Plains or the western portion of the Great Plains, some of which in the farthest west is known as the High Plains.

The Great Plains lie across both the Central United States and Western Canada, encompassing: