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- North America can also be divided into four great regions:
*Great Plains: stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian Arctic;
*the geologically young, mountainous west: including the Rocky Mountains, the Great Basin, California and Alaska;
*the raised but relatively flat plateau of the Canadian Shield in the northeast;
*the varied eastern region: including the Appalachian Mountains, the coastal plain of the Atlantic Seaboard, and the Florida peninsula.
Mexico and its long plateaus and cordilleras fall largely in the western region, although the eastern coastal plain does extend south along the Gulf. (en)
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