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Biome Map
Major temperate grasslands include the veldts of Africa, the pampas of South America, the steppes of Eurasia, and the plains of North America.
North America: the prairies of the Central Lowlands and High Plains of the US and Canada. The Palouse Prairie of eastern Washington state, the California grasslands, and the desert grasslands of the Southwest are also temperate grasslands.
Manitoba Prairie in Canada
Eurasia: the steppes from Ukraine eastward through Russia and Mongolia.
The Great Eurasian Steppe
South America: the pampas of Argentina, Uruguay, and southeastern Brazil
Pampas of Argentina
Africa: the veld in the Republic of South Africa.
Veld in the Republic of South Africa
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