Montana

North Dakota

Saskatchewan

Nebraska

Missouri

Kansas

Wisconsin

Michigan

Alberta

Manitoba

South Dakota

Minnesota

Iowa

Illinois

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A map showing selected ethnic and cultural regions in North America. Red dots indicate rural ethnic European settlements, primarily located in the Midwestern United States and parts of Canada, with clusters around the Great Lakes and the Dakotas.

Contemporary rural ethnic European settlements in North America

Rural Ethnic European Settlements

North America

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Alaska

Arizona

Utah

Yukon

Northwest Territories

Florida

Washington

Wyoming

Nunavut

Kentucky

Nova Scotia

Virginia

Texas

Hawaii

North Carolina

Oregon

New Brunswick

British Columbia

Newfoundland and Labrador

South Carolina

Colorado

Nevada

Québec

Tennessee

Ontario

California

A world map shows national parks highlighted in green.

Locations of terrestrial and marine protected areas

National Parks

In North America, national parks are scattered across northern and western Canada, Canada’s Arctic islands, and eastern Canada’s Great Lakes region, Saint Lawrence River Valley, and Maritime Provinces. In the United States, larger national parks are mainly in Alaska and the western states, with a few sizeable parks in the East, including Florida and the Appalachians. Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean have smaller national parks. Most of northeastern Greenland is a national park. In South America, national parks are concentrated in the Amazon basin and in the Patagonian Andes and Tierra del Fuego in the south. In Europe, parks are widely distributed from Iceland to Russia, including the UK, Norway, the Alps, Spain, and southeastern Europe. North Africa and the Sahara have few parks, with some in Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Western Sahara, and coastal Mauritania. Sub-Saharan Africa has parks scattered across West, East, and southern Africa, with the largest parks in East Africa along the Great Rift Valley to southern Africa. Madagascar has small parks. Southwest and Central Asia have few parks, with some in Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan. South Asia’s parks run along the Himalayas from Pakistan to Bhutan, with small parks in India and Sri Lanka. In Southeast Asia, Thailand and Indonesia have numerous parks, while other countries have fewer. East Asia shows parks in South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan, but none in China, North Korea, or Mongolia. Oceania features numerous parks in Australia and New Zealand, mainly on New Zealand’s South Island.