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Tennessee covers roughly 42,143 square miles (109,150 km 2), of which 926 square miles (2,400 km 2), or 2.2%, is water. It is the 16th smallest state in terms of land area. The state is about 440 miles (710 km) long from east to west and 112 miles (180 km) wide from north to south.
Short Mountain is a mountain-sized monadnock that is the highest point in Cannon County, Tennessee and the Nashville metropolitan area.It is surrounded by the Highland Rim to the north, east and south but is an outlier of the Cumberland Plateau, evidenced by its sandstone caprock reaching over 2,000 feet (610 meters) in elevation; [1] this makes it the westernmost part of Tennessee with an ...
This is a list of the world's highest civilian airports, situated at a minimum elevation of 2,500 m (8,202 ft) above mean sea level. ... Jomsom: Nepal JMO
Jomsom (Nepali: जोमसोम), (Ward No. 4 of Gharpajhong Rural Municipality) also known as Dzongsam (New Fort), [2] is the centre of Gharapjhong rural municipality in Mustang district and a former independent village development committee situated at an altitude of about 2,700 metres (8,900 ft) in Gandaki Province of western Nepal.
With a total land area of 13,558.27 square miles (35,115.8 km 2), comprises 32.90% of the state's land area and is the second-largest of the Grand Divisions, behind Middle Tennessee. [5] The entirety of East Tennessee is both geographically and culturally part of Appalachia and the Appalachian Mountains and is usually considered part of the ...
The geology of Tennessee is as diverse as its landscapes. Politically, Tennessee is broken up into three Grand Divisions : East , Middle , and West Tennessee . [ 1 ] Physically, Tennessee is also separated into three main types of landforms: river valley plain, highlands and basins, and mountains.
An elevation map of Grassy Cove in Cumberland County, Tennessee. Grassy Cove is North America's largest sinkhole. Sinkhole dimensions: [6] Watershed Area: 33.1770 km 2 (12.8097 sq mi) Watershed Perimeter: 42.1524 km (26.1923 mi) Sinkhole Area: 13.3112 km 2 (5.1395 sq mi) Sinkhole Perimeter: 35.7192 km (22.1949 mi) Sinkhole Depth: 39.97 m (131.1 ft)
They are situated in East Tennessee atop the Cumberland Plateau just west of the plateau's eastern escarpment, and comprise parts of Morgan, Anderson, and Cumberland counties. The Crab Orchard Mountains have many peaks over 3,000 ft., with the highest being Big Fodderstack at 3,340 feet (1,020 m) [ 1 ] and Frozen Head at 3,324 feet (1,013 m ...