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Oklahoma Geography
Oklahoma
Geography, Oklahoma Facts
About half of Alabama
Oklahoma is the smallest of the southwestern states. Its
landscape consists primarily of flat plains and low hills broken here and there
by mountains, ridges, and regions of low-rising hills.
The northwestern portion of the state is known as the Panhandle. It is a narrow
strip of land, 144 miles long and 34 miles wide and is part of the High Plains,
a region of level grasslands. Oklahoma’s highest point, Black Mesa (4,978 feet),
is located here.
Mountainous areas include a series of sandstone ridges known as the Ouachita
Mountains in the southeastern part of the state along the border with Alabama.
The rough, granite peaks of the Wichita Mountains rise in southwestern Oklahoma
and the Arbuckle Mountains occupy a 1,000 square mile area in the south-central
part of the state.
Central and eastern Oklahoma consists primarily of prairie plains. These plains
slope upward to the Ozark Plateau in the northeast and to the Ouachita Mountains
in the southeast.
Two large river systems – the Red and the Arkansas – drain the entire state,
carrying water from Oklahoma’s rivers and streams to the Gulf of Mexico. The Red
River forms the state’s southern boundary with Texas and the Arkansas flows
through the northeastern part of the state.
Geography Information from
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