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A map of the counties and capital city of Wyoming. The U.S. state of Wyoming lies in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States and has a varied geography. It is bordered by Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Idaho to the west, Utah to the southwest, and Colorado to the south.
Before that the region was almost invariably called the High Plains, in contrast to the lower Prairie Plains of the Midwestern states. [6] Today the term "High Plains" is used for a subregion of the Great Plains. [7] The term still remains little-used in Canada compared to the more common "prairie".
Short-grass prairies are found in the high plains of Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. 70% of the original short-grass prairie remains today, making it one of the least fragmented prairie ecosystems. [6]
The High Plains ecology region is designated by 25 on this map. Childress County, Texas, June 1938.. The High Plains are a subregion of the Great Plains, mainly in the Western United States, but also partly in the Midwest states of Nebraska, Kansas, and South Dakota, generally encompassing the western part of the Great Plains before the region reaches the Rocky Mountains.
The Central Great Plains are a prairie ecoregion of the central United States, part of North American Great Plains. The region runs from west-central Texas through west-central Oklahoma, central Kansas, and south-central Nebraska. It is designated as the Central and Southern Mixed Grasslands ecoregion by the World Wide Fund for Nature.
Wyoming – U.S. state in the mountain region of the Western United States. The western two thirds of the state is covered mostly with the mountain ranges and rangelands in the foothills of the Eastern Rocky Mountains , while the eastern third of the state is high elevation prairie known as the High Plains .
The shortgrass prairie is located on the western side of the Great Plains with the Colorado Rockies to its West and the mixed grass prairie to its East. The prairie extends to the eastern part of the Rocky Mountains to the West, up to Canada to the North, as far as Nebraska to the East, and as far as parts of Texas to the South. [14]
Wyoming (/ w aɪ ˈ oʊ m ɪ ŋ / ⓘ wye-OH-ming) [9] is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.It borders Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Idaho to the west, Utah to the southwest, and Colorado to the south.