What are the most important cities in each of the 8 regions of N.A.?? (ex. coastal plains, great lakes..ect)?

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What are the most important cities in each of the 8 regions of N.A.?? (ex. coastal plains, great lakes..ect)?

Answer 1

Not sure about the 8 regions... (see wikipedia)

Grtest Lakes=Chicago

Rockies=Denver

Central plains=Houston or Dallas+ Ft Worth Atlantic plains=NYC

Southwest=Mexico City

Canadian shield= Montreal

Alaska peninsula=Anchorage

Florida and caribbean island=Miami+FtLauderdale

Pacific Range=L.A.

"The continent can be divided into four great regions (each of which contains many sub-regions): the 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; and the varied eastern region, which includes the Appalachian Mountains, the coastal plain along the Atlantic seaboard, and the Florida peninsula. Mexico, with its long plateaus and cordilleras, falls largely in the western "  ÃƒÂ¢Ã‚—„ Wikipedia

Answer 2

New England = Boston

Northeast = New York

Southeast = Atlanta

Midwest = Chicago

Great (Central) Plains = Dallas

Rocky Mountains = Denver

Pacific = Los Angelos

Southwest = Phoenix

Answer 3

Laurentian Upland

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Duluth, MN - Major shipping port in the interior of the continent.  Minneapolis is too far to the west to be in this physiographic region.

Atlantic Plain

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New York, NY - Self explanatory.

Appalachian Highlands

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Atlanta, GA - Atlanta is located in the piedmont range of the Appalachian Higlands and has a metropolitan population of 5,138,223 according to the 2000 census.  Its one of seven American cities classified as Gamma world cities, and ranks third in the number of Fortune 500 companies headquartered within city boundaries.

Interior Highlands

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St. Louis, MO - Metro population of 2,801,033 in 2006 located on the divide between the interior plains and the Interior highlands.  If you want to classify it Interior PLain, Springfield, MO would then take its place.

Interior Plains

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Chicago, IL - Self explanatory

Intermontane Plateaus

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Las Vegas, NV - This is a tricky one to calss as cities such as Boise Idaho and Albuquerque also fall in this zone.  Las Vegas does have the largest economy and more prestige though.

Rocky Mountain

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Salt Lake City, UT - On the border between Rocky Mountains and Interior Plateaus.  Second choce is Spokane, WA or Boise Idaho which also falls on teh physiographic border.

Pacific Mountains

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Los Angeles, CA - Self explanatory.