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- Great Smoky Mountains National Park
The park is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains, part of the southern Appalachians, and it straddles the Tennessee-North Carolina border for 70 miles. The Cherokee people called this area Shaconage, or Place of Blue Smoke.
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- Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee
The national park, in the states of North Carolina and Tennessee, encompasses 800 square miles of which 95 percent are forested. World renowned for the diversity of its plant and animal resources, the beauty of its ancient mountains, the quality of its remnants of Southern Appalachian mountain culture, and the depth and integrity of the wilderness sanctuary within its boundaries, it is one of the largest protected areas in the east.
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