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Some wetlands have localized names unique to a region such as the prairie potholes of North America's northern plain, pocosins, Carolina bays and baygalls [25] [26] of the Southeastern US, mallines of Argentina, Mediterranean seasonal ponds of Europe and California, turloughs of Ireland, billabongs of Australia, among many others.
Compare to Category:Landforms of North America by country and Category:Bodies of water of North America by country. ... Wetlands of Antigua and Barbuda (1 C) B.
Wetlands of the United States. Wetlands of the United States are defined by the United States Army Corps of Engineers and the United States Environmental Protection Agency as "those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support ...
Canada's boreal forest is a vast region comprising about one third of the circumpolar boreal forest that rings the Northern Hemisphere, mostly north of the 50th parallel. [1] Other countries with boreal forest include Russia, which contains the majority; the United States in its northernmost state of Alaska; and the Scandinavian or Northern ...
A swamp is a forested wetland. [ 1 ] Swamps are considered to be transition zones because both land and water play a role in creating this environment. [ 2 ] Swamps vary in size and are located all around the world. The water of a swamp may be fresh water, brackish water, or seawater.
Wetlands of North America by country (17 C) B. ... Swamps of North America (1 C, 2 P) This page was last edited on 16 February 2019, at 23:13 (UTC). ...
The Great Lakes (French: Grands Lacs), also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes spanning the Canada–United States border. The five lakes are Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario. (Hydrologically, Michigan and Huron are a single body of water, as they are joined by Straits of ...
As of November 2023, 171 states have acceded to the convention and designated 2,500 sites to the list, covering 257,106,360 hectares (635,323,700 acres); two other states have acceded to the convention but have yet to designate any sites. The complete list of the wetlands is accessible on the Ramsar Sites Information Service website. [3]