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Major Land Resource Areas in Tennessee

122-Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
123-Nashville Basin
125-Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
128-Southern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
130B-Southern Blue Ridge
131A-Southern Mississippi River Alluvium
133A-Southern Coastal Plain
134-Southern Mississippi Valley Loess

Map of the MLRAs in Tennessee

From Land Resource Regions and Major Land Resource Areas of the United States, the Caribbean, and the Pacific Basin (Ag Handbook 296) - This publication describes 28 land resource regions and the physiography, geology, climate, water resources, soils, biological resources, and kinds of land use in 278 major land resource areas in the United States, the Caribbean, and the Pacific Basin.