 Continental U.S physiographic regions There are eight distinct U. S. physiographic regions within the continental United States. Each is composed of smaller physiographic subdivisions. [1] File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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Depending on usage, the term continental United States can refer to either: the 48 contiguous states plus the District of Columbia; or the 48 contiguous states plus the District of Columbia and Alaska. ...
These eight regions are:
See Physical geography of the U.S. for descriptions. Canadian Shield The Canadian Shield is a large craton in eastern and central Canada and adjacent portions of the United States, composed of bare rock dating to the Precambrian Era (between 4. ...
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A rainy day in the Great Smoky Mountains, Western North Carolina The Appalachian Mountains (French: les Appalaches) are a vast system of North American mountains, partly in Canada, but mostly in the United States, forming a zone, from 100 to 300 miles wide, running from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, 1...
The Interior Plains is a vast region that spreads across the legs (craton) of North America. ...
Moraine Lake, and the Valley of the Ten Peaks, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada The Rocky Mountains, often called the Rockies, are a broad mountain range in western North America. ...
For purposes of description, the physical geography of the United States is split into several major physiographic divisions, one being the Intermontane Plateaus. ...
(See legend) For purposes of description, the physical geography of the United States is split into several major physiographic divisions, one being the Pacific Mountain System. ...
Forty-nine states in the United States (all except Hawaii) lie on the North American continent; 48 of these (all except Alaska and Hawaii) are contiguous and form the continental United States. ...
Canadian Shield
1. Superior Upland For purposes of description, the physical geography of the United States is split into several major physiographic divisions, three of which being the Laurentian Highlands, Interior Highlands and the Interior Plains (see subdivisions 1 and 11-15) lie in the interior of the U.S. Please refer to the Geography...
Atlantic Plain 2. Continental Shelf (not on map) Sediment Rock Mantle The continental shelf is the extended perimeter of each continent, which is covered during interglacial periods such as the current epoch by relatively shallow seas (known as shelf seas) andbbccvcnccccccccccccccccccccccccvvvvvvvvvvvvvvcggggggggggggggggyutu7ti8yukiyuiyutuiyuiytui gulfs. ...
3. Coastal Plain
- 3a. Embayed section
- 3b. Sea Island section
- 3c. Floridian section
- 3d. East Gulf Coastal Plain
- 3e. Mississippi Alluvial Plain
- 3f. West Gulf Coastal Plain
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The Gulf Coastal Plain extends from the Florida Parishes of Louisiana over most of Mississippi, some of western Tennessee and Kentucky, the southwestern 2/3 of Alabama, and the western panhandle of Florida. ...
The Mississippi River Alluvial Plain, the largest ecoregion in Louisiana, covers some 12,350 square miles (31,990 square kilometres) of the state. ...
Appalachian Highlands 4. Piedmont province The James River winds its way among piedmont hills in central Virginia. ...
- 4a. Piedmont Upland
- 4b. Piedmont Lowlands
5. Blue Ridge province - 5a. Northern section
- 5b. Southern section
6. Valley and Ridge province - 6a. Tennessee section
- 6b. Middle section
- 6c. Hudson Valley
7. St. Lawrence Valley For the magazine, see Hudson Valley (magazine). ...
The Saint Lawrence River (French fleuve Saint-Laurent) is a large west-to-east flowing river in the middle latitudes of North America, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. ...
- 7a. Champlain section
- 7b. Northern section (not on map)
8. Appalachian Plateaus province The Appalachian Plateau is the western part of the Appalachian mountain system, stretching from New York to Alabama. ...
- 8a. Mohawk section
- 8b. Catskill section
- 8c. Southern New York section
- 8d. Allegheny Plateau section
- 8e. Kanawha section
- 8f. Cumberland Plateau section
- 8g. Cumberland Mountain section
9. New England Province Catskill Escarpment and Blackhead Range as seen from Overlook Mountain The Catskill Mountains (also known as simply the Catskills) a natural area in New York State northwest of New York City and southwest of Albany, are not, despite their popular name, true geological mountains, but rather a mature dissected plateau...
The Allegheny Plateau is a large, dissected plateau area in southern New York, western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and eastern Ohio. ...
The Cumberland Plateau includes much of eastern Kentucky and western West Virginia in the United States. ...
Cumberland Mountains is a region in the southeastern section of the Appalachian Mountains. ...
This article is about the region in the United States of America. ...
- 9a. Seaboard Lowland section
- 9b. New England Upland section
- 9c. White Mountain section
- 9d. Green Mountain section
- 9e. Taconic section
10. Adirondack province This article is about the White Mountains of New Hampshire. ...
The Green Mountains may refer to: The Green Mountains in Vermont in the United States extending into southern Quebec in Canada. ...
Interior Plains 11. Interior Low Plateaus - 11a. Highland Rim section
- 11b. Lexington Plain
- 11c. Nashville Basin
12. Central Lowland The Highland Rim is a geographic term for the area in Tennessee surrounding the Nashville Basin. ...
- 12a. Eastern Lake section
- 12b. Western Lake section
- 12c. Wisconsin Driftless section
- 12d. Till Plains
- 12e. Dissected Till Plains
- 12f. Osage Plains
13. Great Plains The Driftless Area is an area of about 20,000 square miles in southwestern Wisconsin and northeastern Iowa which was by-passed by the continental glaciers. ...
The Dissected Till Plains are a land region of the United States, located in southern and western Iowa, northeastern Kansas, the southwestern corner of Minnesota, northern Missouri, eastern Nebraska, and southeastern South Dakota. ...
The Blackland Prairies and Cross Timbers are located to the west and south of the Flint Hills. ...
The Great Plains is the broad expanse of prairie which lies east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada. ...
- 13a. Missouri Plateau, glaciated
- 13b. Missouri Plateau, unglaciated
- 13c. Black Hills
- 13d. High Plains
- 13e. Plains Border
- 13f. Colorado Piedmont
- 13g. Raton section
- 13h. Pecos Valley
- 13i. Edwards Plateau
- 13j. Central Texas section
The Coteau du Missouri, or Missouri Plateau, is a large plateau that stretches along the eastern side of the valley of the Missouri River in central North Dakota and north central South Dakota in the United States. ...
The Coteau du Missouri, or Missouri Plateau, is a large plateau that stretches along the eastern side of the valley of the Missouri River in central North Dakota and north central South Dakota in the United States. ...
This article is about the place in South Dakota. ...
The High Plains are a subregion of the Great Plains in the central United States, located in eastern Colorado, western Kansas, western Nebraska, central and eastern Montana, eastern New Mexico, western Oklahoma, western Texas, and southeastern Wyoming. ...
The Colorado Piedmont is the geologic term for an area along the base of the foothills of the Front Range in north central Colorado in the United States. ...
The Pecos River rises in northern New Mexico, USA, and flows for 926 miles (1,480 km) through the eastern portion of that state and neighboring Texas before it empties into the Rio Grande near Del Rio. ...
The Edwards Plateau is a region of west-central Texas which is bounded by the Balcones Fault to the south and east, the Llano Uplift and the plains region to the north, and the Pecos River to the west. ...
Central Texas (a part of which is Texas Hill Country), is a region in the U.S. state of Texas. ...
Interior Highlands 14. Ozark Plateaus Ozark redirects here. ...
- 14a. Springfield-Salem plateaus
- 14b. Boston Mountains
15. Ouachita province Buffalo River from river trail overlook near Steel Creek in the Boston Mountains. ...
- 15a. Arkansas Valley
- 15b. Ouachita Mountains
Ouachita Mountains The Ouachita Mountains are a mountain range located in west central Arkansas and east central Oklahoma. ...
Rocky Mountain System 16. Southern Rocky Mountains Moraine Lake, and the Valley of the Ten Peaks, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada The Rocky Mountains, often called the Rockies, are a broad mountain range in western North America. ...
17. Wyoming Basin
18. Middle Rocky Mountains Moraine Lake, and the Valley of the Ten Peaks, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada The Rocky Mountains, often called the Rockies, are a broad mountain range in western North America. ...
19. Northern Rocky Mountains Moraine Lake, and the Valley of the Ten Peaks, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada The Rocky Mountains, often called the Rockies, are a broad mountain range in western North America. ...
Intermontane Plateaus 20. Columbia Plateau The Washington towns of Spokane, Vantage, Yakima and Pasco, and the Oregon town of Pendleton, lie on the Columbia River Plateau. ...
- 20a. Walla Walla Plateau
- 20b. Blue Mountain section
- 20c. Payette section
- 20d. Snake River Plain
- 20e. Harney section
21. Colorado Plateaus This article is about the Snake River in the northwestern United States. ...
The Colorado Plateau, also called the Colorado Plateaus Province, is a physiographic region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States. ...
- 21a. High Plateaus of Utah
- 21b. Uinta Basin
- 21c. Canyon Lands
- 21d. Navajo section
- 21e. Grand Canyon section
- 21f. Datil section
22. Basin and Range province The Grand Canyon is a very colorful, steep-sided gorge, carved by the Colorado River, in the U.S. state of Arizona. ...
Basin and Range index map - USGS The Basin and Range Province is a particular type of topography that covers much of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico that is typified by elongate north-south trending arid valleys bounded by mountain ranges which also bound adjacent valleys. ...
- 22a. Great Basin
- 22b. Sonoran Desert
- 22c. Salton Trough
- 22d. Mexican Highland
- 22e. Sacramento section
Drainage map showing the Great Basin in orange Various Definitions of the Great Basin (NPS) The Great Basin is a large, arid region of the western United States. ...
Sonoran Desert wildlife Mountains in the Sonoran Desert 3D photograph of Saguaro National Park at dusk. ...
Pacific Mountain System 23. Cascade-Sierra Mountains The Sierra Nevada is a mountain range that is almost entirely in the eastern portion of the U.S. state of California. ...
- 23a. Northern Cascade Mountains
- 23b. Middle Cascade Mountains
- 23c. Southern Cascade Mountains
- 23d. Sierra Nevada
24. Pacific Border province Mount Adams in Washington state The Cascade Range is a mountainous region famous for its chain of tall volcanos called the High Cascades that run north-south along the west coast of North America from British Columbia to the Shasta Cascade area of northern California. ...
Mount Adams in Washington state The Cascade Range is a mountainous region famous for its chain of tall volcanos called the High Cascades that run north-south along the west coast of North America from British Columbia to the Shasta Cascade area of northern California. ...
Mount Adams in Washington state The Cascade Range is a mountainous region famous for its chain of tall volcanos called the High Cascades that run north-south along the west coast of North America from British Columbia to the Shasta Cascade area of northern California. ...
The Sierra Nevada is a mountain range that is almost entirely in eastern California. ...
- 24a. Puget Trough
- 24b. Olympic Mountains
- 24c. Oregon Coast Range
- 24d. Klamath Mountains
- 24e. California Trough
- 24f. California Coast Ranges
- 24g. Los Angeles Ranges
25. Lower California province The Olympic Mountains The Olympic Mountains are a mountain range on the Olympic Peninsula of western Washington in the United States. ...
A Coastal range is any range of mountains forming a coastline. ...
The Klamath Mountains are a mountain range in northwest California and southwest Oregon, the highest peaks being Mount Eddy (2744m / 9002) in Trinity County, California, and Mount Ashland (2296m / 7533) in Jackson County, Oregon. ...
The Pacific Coast Ranges are the series of mountain ranges that stretch along west coast of North America from Alaska to Mexico. ...
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