Great Plains
The Great Plains of the United States of America consist primarily of wide open grasslands between the Rocky Mountains and the forests of the Midwest. While most of the land consists of farms and pastures, the Great Plains are also home to the Badlands and Black Hills, with the iconic Mount Rushmore.| Tap on the map to travel |
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Great Plains
- Type: Locality with 9,450,000 residents
- Description: broad expanse of flat land west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains
- Address: KS
- Categories: plain, region and heath
- Location: United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of centre
39.4169° or 39° 25' 1" northLongitude of centre
-101.2921° or 101° 17' 32" westPopulation
9,450,000Elevation
894 metres (2,933 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 368388378OpenStreetMap Feature
natural=heathOpenStreetMap Feature
place=localityGeoNames ID
12212750Wikidata ID
Q12707Great Plains Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Groot Vlaktes
- Arabic: السهول الكبرى
- Armenian: Մեծ Հարթավայրեր
- Armenian: Մեծ հարթավայրեր
- Asturian: Grandes Enllanaes
- Asturian: Grandes Llanures
- Azerbaijani: Böyük Düzənliklər
- Basque: Ordoki Handiak
- Basque: Zabaldi handiak
- Belarusian: Вялікія раўніны
- Bengali: গ্রেট প্লেইনস
- Bhojpuri: ग्रेट प्लेन्स
- Bosnian: Velika nizija
- Bosnian: Velika nizina
- Bulgarian: Големи равнини
- Catalan: Grans Planes
- Cebuano: Great Plains (patag sa Estados Unidos, Kansas)
- Cebuano: Great Plains
- Chinese: Tōa Pêⁿ-po͘
- Chinese: 北美大平原
- Chinese: 大平原
- Croatian: Velika nizina
- Czech: Velké planiny
- Czech: Velké pláně
- Czech: Velké prérie
- Czech: Velké roviny
- Danish: Great Plains
- Dimli (individual language): Deştê Gırd
- Dutch: Great Plains
- Esperanto: Nordamerikaj Grandaj Ebenaĵoj
- Estonian: Suur tasandik
- Faroese: Stóru Grasfløturnar
- Finnish: Suuret tasangot
- French: Grandes Plaines
- Galician: Grandes Planicies
- Georgian: დიდი ვაკეები
- German: Great Plains
- German: Große Ebenen
- Greek: Μεγάλες Πεδιάδες
- Hebrew: המישורים הגדולים
- Hebrew: מדינות חבל המישורים הגדולים
- Hindi: कनाडा तथा संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका का ग्रेट प्लेन
- Icelandic: Slétturnar miklu
- Ido: Granda Planaji
- Inari Sami: Stuorrâ tuolbâdâsah
- Indonesian: Great Plains
- Irish: Na Machairí Móra
- Italian: Grandi Pianure
- Japanese: グレートプレーンズ
- Kazakh: Ұлы жазықтар
- Korean: 그레이트플레인스
- Latin: Magnae Planities
- Latvian: Lielie līdzenumi
- Lingua Franca Nova: Planos Grande
- Lithuanian: Didžiosios lygumos
- Luxembourgish: Great Plains
- Macedonian: Голема Низина
- Malay: Great Plains
- Min Nan Chinese: Tōa Pêⁿ-po͘
- Navajo: Halgai Hóteelígíí
- Northern Frisian: Great Plains
- Northern Sami: Viiddis jalgadasat
- Norwegian: Great Plains
- Norwegian Bokmål: Great Plains
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Great Plains
- Persian: دشت بزرگ
- Persian: دشتهای بزرگ
- Polish: Wielka Równina Prerii
- Polish: Wielkie Równiny
- Portuguese: Grandes Planícies
- Romanian: Marile Câmpii
- Russian: Великие Равнины
- Russian: Великие равнины
- Scots: Great Plains
- Serbian: Велике равнице
- Serbo-Croatian: Velika nizina
- Serbo-Croatian: Velike ravnice
- Slovak: Veľké prérie
- Spanish: Grandes Llanuras
- Swahili: Tambarare kuu za Marekani
- Swedish: Great Plains
- Tamil: பெருஞ் சமவெளி
- Tatar: Бөек тигезлекләр
- Turkish: Büyük Düzlükler
- Turkish: Büyük Ovalar
- Ukrainian: Великі рівнини
- Urdu: عظیم میدان
- Uzbek: Buyuk tekisliklar
- Venetian: Grande Pianure
- Vietnamese: Đại Bình nguyên Bắc Mỹ
- Welsh: Gwastadeddau Mawr
- Western Frisian: Great Plains
- Western Frisian: Grutte Flakten
- Western Panjabi: عظیم میدان
- Western Panjabi: وڈے میدان
- Wu Chinese: 北美大平原
- Yue Chinese: 大平原
- Dataran Besar Amerika Utara
- Deştê Gırdi
- Great Plains states
- ग्रेट प्लेन
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Great Plains. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.