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The Ozarks (also referre to as Ozarks Mountain Country, the Ozark Mountains or the Ozark Plateau) are a physiographic, geologic, and cultural highland region of the central United States. It covers much of the south half of Missouri and an extensive portion of northwest and North central Arkansas. The region also extends westward into northeast Oklahoma and extreme southeast Kansas.

Trivia about ozarks

  • The name of this range may be a corruption of a 1700s French trading post spelled "A-U-X A-R-C"
  • This mountain range extends from southern Illinois across Missouri into Arkansas
  • 1931 completion of the Bagnell Dam created a beautiful lake in these Missouri mountains
  • These highlands stretching from St. Louis to the Arkansas River are called a plateau as well as mountains
  • The northernmost of Arkansas' national forests shares its name with these mountains in the area
  • Arkansas' Boston Mountains are the highest elevations in this 50,000-square-mile mountain region
  • The seat of Greene County, Springfield, Missouri is found in the foothills of these mountains

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