There are five major mountain ranges in the United States:
- the Appalachian Mountains in the East;
- the Rocky Mountains in the Southwest and West, from Colorado to the Canadian border and beyond;
- the Cascade Mountains in the Pacific Northwest;
- the Sierra Nevada in the far West;
- and the Alaska Range, a segment of the Coast Range, in Alaska.
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