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The Sandhills, often written Sand Hills, is a region of mixed-grass prairie on grass-stabilized sand dunes in north-central Nebraska, covering just over one quarter of the state. The dunes were designated a National Natural Landmark in 1984.
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Nebraska has 93 counties.They are listed below by name, FIPS code and license plate prefix. Nebraska's postal abbreviation is NE and its FIPS state code is 31.. When many counties were formed, the bills establishing them did not state the honoree's full name; thus the namesakes of several counties, including Brown, Deuel, Dixon, and possibly Harlan, are known only by their surnames.
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Cherry County is in the Nebraska Sandhills. It is the state's largest county, at nearly 6,000 square miles (16,000 km 2), larger than the state of Connecticut. In the Nebraska license plate system, Cherry County is represented by the prefix 66 (it had the 66th-most vehicles registered in the state when the system was established in 1922).
The Nebraska panhandle roughly encompasses the area in Nebraska between 102° and 104°W longitude and 41° and 43°N latitude. It comprises 11 counties with a combined land area of 14,181 square miles (36,730 km 2 ), or about 18.45 percent of the state's land.
Lincoln County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 census, the population was 34,676. [2] Its county seat is North Platte. [3] Despite the county's name, the state capital city of Lincoln is not in or near Lincoln County. Lincoln County is one of the three counties in the North Platte Micropolitan Statistical Area.