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The Great Plains are a broad expanse of flatland in North America. The region is located just to the east of the Rocky Mountains, much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland.
Great Plains, major physiographic province of North America. The Great Plains lie 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.
Also called the Great American Desert, the Great Plains lie 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 Lowlands and the Canadian Shield on the east and the Rocky Mountains on the west.
The actual term, "Great Plains," has been used to describe the grasslands of North America since at least the mid-nineteenth century, but it only gained widespread acceptance in the 1930s.
The Great Plains is a vast expanse of grasslands stretching from the Rocky Mountains to the Missouri River and from the Rio Grande to the coniferous forests of Canada—an area more than eighteen hundred miles from north to south and more than five hundred miles from east to west.
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.
Learn about the wildlife and people in the Northern Great Plains, as well as the threats the area faces, what WWF is doing, and how you can help.
