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The depopulation of the Great Plains refers to the large-scale migration of people from rural areas of the Great Plains of the United States to more urban areas and to the east and west coasts during the 20th century.
Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov ( Russian: Сапармурат Атаевич Ниязов; Turkmen: Saparmyrat Ataýewiç Nyýazow; [a] 19 February 1940 – 21 December 2006), also known as Türkmenbaşy, [b] was a Turkmen dictator who ruled Turkmenistan from 1985 until his death in 2006. He was first secretary of the Turkmen Communist Party ...
- TDP, (1991–2006)
The term "Great Plains" is used in the United States to describe a sub-section of the even more vast Interior Plains physiographic division, which covers much of the interior of North America. It also has currency as a region of human geography, referring to the Plains Indians or the Plains states. [citation needed]
- 1,100,000 sq mi (2,800,000 km²)
- Canada and the United States
- 2,000 mi (3,200 km)
The prevalence, timing, and magnitude of depopulation have unfolded unevenly across the geographic landscape of rural America. Depopulating rural counties are concentrated in the Great Plains and lie in a north-south band from the Dakotas through Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma to central Texas (see Figure 3).
The depopulation of the Great Plains refers to the large-scale migration of people from rural areas of the Great Plains of the United States to more urban areas and to the east and west coasts during the 20th century.
Depopulation is clustered in space forming regions of loss visible in parts of Appalachia and the Great Plains. Loss amidst loss compounds the difficulties posed by local population loss. Populations living in islands of loss, however, may have access to important regional resources, particularly employment, and are more likely to rebound from depopulation.
The Great Plains population has grown steadily in recent decades and more than doubled from 4.9 million people in 1950 to 9.9 mil-lion people in 2007 (Figure 1). During this period, the rate of. population growth in the Great Plains was similar to that of the United States, 102 percent com-pared with 99 percent.
