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Appalachian Mountains
Blue Ridge, part of the Appalachian Mountains.
The Great Smoky Mountains are the western segment of the high Appalachian Mountains in the United States, located in eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina. They are sometimes considered a division of the Unaka Mountains and blend into the Blue Ridge escarpment to the east.1