The Physiographic Regions

of Canada

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into seven distinctphysiographic regions that sharecommon landscape features

i Cordillera 4 Canadian Shield

2 Interior Plain 5 Hudson Bay Lowlands

3 Arctic lands 6 St Lawrence Lowland7 Appalachian Region

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Mix of uplands andlowlands

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sea level

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by theAtlantic

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