List of landforms of the United States
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The United States
contains varied landforms across its territory. These include:
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The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
contains varied landforms across its territory. These include:
- Fjords of the United StatesFjords of the United StatesThe fjords of the United States exist mainly in the states of Washington and Alaska. These fjords — long and narrow inlets in valleys carved by glacial activity — can have two or more basins separated by sills...
- List of glaciers in the United States
- List of islands of the United States
- List of lakes of the United States
- List of rivers of the United States
- List of volcanoes in the United States
- List of waterfalls of the United States
- Mountain peaks of the United StatesMountain peaks of the United StatesThis article comprises three sortable tables of the major mountain peaks of the United States of America.Topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid, a precise mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface...
- Appalachian MountainsAppalachian MountainsThe Appalachian Mountains #Whether the stressed vowel is or ,#Whether the "ch" is pronounced as a fricative or an affricate , and#Whether the final vowel is the monophthong or the diphthong .), often called the Appalachians, are a system of mountains in eastern North America. The Appalachians...
- Black HillsBlack HillsThe Black Hills are a small, isolated mountain range rising from the Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota and extending into Wyoming, USA. Set off from the main body of the Rocky Mountains, the region is something of a geological anomaly—accurately described as an "island of...
- Cascade RangeCascade RangeThe Cascade Range is a major mountain range of western North America, extending from southern British Columbia through Washington and Oregon to Northern California. It includes both non-volcanic mountains, such as the North Cascades, and the notable volcanoes known as the High Cascades...
- Rocky MountainsRocky MountainsThe Rocky Mountains are a major mountain range in western North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch more than from the northernmost part of British Columbia, in western Canada, to New Mexico, in the southwestern United States...
- List of mountains of the United States
- Appalachian Mountains
- Northern Rocky MountainsNorthern Rocky MountainsThe Northern Rocky Mountains, usually referred to as the Northern Rockies, are a subdivision of the Canadian Rockies comprising the northern half of the Canadian segment of the Rocky Mountains...