Great Basin

The Great Basin is the part of the western that does not drain to the sea. Its landscape has given its roads names such as the "extraterrestrial highway" and the "loneliest road in America," and few people live here.
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  • Type: Desert
  • Description: large depression in western United States
  • Also known as: Basin and Range Province

Great Basin

Latitude of center
40.6667° or 40° 40′ north
Longitude of center
-117.6667° or 117° 40′ west
Elevation
4,603 feet (1,403 metres)
Geo­Names ID
6350257
Wiki­data ID
Q966943
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Frisian—“Great Basin” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: Bazeni i madh
  • Arabic: الحوض العظيم
  • Armenian: Մեծ ավազան
  • Armenian: Մեծ Ավազան
  • Asturian: Gran Conca
  • Basque: Arro Handia
  • Basque: Arro handiko eskualdea
  • Belarusian: Вялікі Басейн
  • Bulgarian: Голям басейн
  • Catalan: Gran Conca
  • Catalan: Great Basin
  • Cebuano: Great Basin (kamadan)
  • Cebuano: Great Basin
  • Chinese: Great Basin
  • Chinese: Tōa Phûn-tē
  • Chinese: 大盆地
  • Chinese: 大盆地地形分割槽
  • Chinese: 大盆地地形分區
  • Chinese: 大盆地沙漠
  • Czech: Great Basin
  • Czech: Velká pánev
  • Danish: Great Basin
  • Dutch: grote Bekken
  • Dutch: Grote Bekken
  • Esperanto: Granda Baseno
  • Esperanto: Regiono de la Granda Baseno
  • Finnish: Great Basin
  • Finnish: Iso allas
  • Finnish: Suuri Allas
  • French: Grand Bassin des États-Unis
  • French: Grand Bassin
  • French: Great Basin
  • Georgian: დიდი აუზი
  • German: Great Basin
  • German: Grosses Becken
  • German: Großes Becken
  • Hebrew: האגן הגדול
  • Hungarian: Nagy-medence
  • Icelandic: Lægðin mikla
  • Indonesian: Great Basin
  • Italian: Gran Bacino
  • Italian: Great Basin
  • Japanese: グレートベースン
  • Japanese: グレートベイスン
  • Japanese: グレイト・ベイスン
  • Japanese: 大盆地
  • Kazakh: Үлкен Алап
  • Korean: 그레이트베이슨 사막
  • Korean: 그레이트베이슨
  • Korean: 대분지
  • Lingua Franca Nova: Basin Grande
  • Lithuanian: Didysis Baseinas
  • Macedonian: Голем Басен
  • Macedonian: Голема Котлина
  • Min Nan Chinese: Tōa Phûn-tē
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Great Basin
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Great Basin
  • Norwegian: Great Basin
  • Persian: حوضه بزرگ
  • Persian: گریت بیسین
  • Polish: Great Basin
  • Polish: Wielka Kotlina
  • Portuguese: Grande Bacia
  • Portuguese: Great Basin
  • Romanian: Great Basin Desert
  • Romanian: Great Basin
  • Romanian: Marele Bazin
  • Russian: Большой Бассейн
  • Scottish Gaelic: Great Basin Desert
  • Scottish Gaelic: Great Basin
  • Serbian: Veliki basen
  • Serbian: Велики басен
  • Slovak: Great Basin
  • Slovak: Veľká panva
  • Slovenian: Great Basin
  • Slovenian: Velika kotlina
  • Slovenian: Veliki bazen
  • Spanish: Gran Cuenca Nevada
  • Spanish: Gran Cuenca
  • Spanish: Great Basin
  • Swedish: Great Basin
  • Turkish: Büyük Havza
  • Turkish: Great Basin
  • Ukrainian: Великий Басейн
  • Urdu: گریٹ بیسن
  • Uzbek: Katta havza
  • Vietnamese: Đại Bồn địa Hoa Kỳ
  • Vietnamese: Đại Bồn địa
  • Vietnamese: Đại Bồn trũng
  • Vietnamese: Đại Lòng chảo
  • Vietnamese: Great Basin
  • Welsh: Basn Mawr
  • Western Frisian: Grutte Dobbe

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Great Basin”. Photo: Thatotherperson, CC BY-SA 3.0.