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Ecoregions of North Carolina

Last updated: September 30th, 2019

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Name†Color on Map
Southern Inner Piedmont…
Northern Inner Piedmont✓
Southern Outer Piedmont…
Triassic Basins…
Northern Outer Piedmont…
Virginian Barrier Islands and Coastal Marshes✓
Carolinian Barrier Islands and Coastal Marshes…
Carolina Flatwoods…
Atlantic Southern Loam Plains…
Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces…
New River Plateau✓
Southern Sedimentary Ridges…
Southern Crystalline Ridges and Mountains✓
High Mountains✓
Southern Metasedimentary Mountains…
Broad Basins…
Eastern Blue Ridge Foothills…
Swamps and Peatlands✓
Mid-Atlantic Flatwoods…
Carolina Slate Belt✓
Kings Mountain…
Chesapeake-Pamlico Lowlands and Tidal Marshes✓
Sauratown Mountains✓
Mid-Atlantic Floodplains and Low Terraces…
Sand Hills…
Rolling Coastal Plain…
Amphibolite Mountains…

† Status: ✓ = Complete ○ = Needs Image … = Incomplete ∅ = Stub Only

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