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The Great Plains is the broad expanse of flat land (a plain), much of it covered in prairie, steppe and grassland, that lies west of the Mississippi River tallgrass prairie states and east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada.

This area covers parts, but not all, of the states of Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming, Minnesota, Iowa and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

The region is known for supporting extensive cattle ranching and dry farming.

South Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States.

It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux Native American tribes, who compose a significant portion of the population and historically dominated the entire territory.

South Dakota is the 17th most expansive, but the 5th least populous and the 5th least densely populated of the 50 United States.

Once the southern portion of the Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889, simultaneously with North Dakota.

Pierre is the state capital and Sioux Falls, with a population of about 171,000, is South Dakota's largest city.

North Dakota (locally) is the 39th state of the United States, having been admitted to the union on November 2, 1889.

Nebraska is a state that lies in both the Great Plains and the Midwestern United States.

The state is bordered by South Dakota to the north, Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River, Kansas to the south, Colorado to the southwest and Wyoming to the west.

Its area is just over 77,220 sq mi (200,000 km2) with almost 1.9 million people.

Its state capital is Lincoln.

Its largest city is Omaha, which is on the Missouri River.

Kansas is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States.

Its capital is Topeka and its largest city is Wichita.

Kansas is named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area.

The tribe's name (natively ') is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south wind", although this was probably not the term's original meaning.

For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes.

Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys.

Tribes in the western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison.