IAS NOVA Interactive Atlas · Geography Through Maps
WORLD GRASSLANDS ATLAS
Explore 38 major prairies, steppes, savannas, flooded grasslands and high-altitude meadows. Hover a region—or tap it—to learn its climate, plants and signature wildlife.
Jump to a grassland
Coloured areas show simplified educational extents, not legal or cadastral boundaries. India’s external outline is independently masked over the generic basemap and aligned to the Survey of India Political Map, 2026. Base cartography: Natural Earth via world-atlas. India silhouette adapted from MapSVG (CC BY 4.0). Biome framework: WWF; regional synthesis: FAO grasslands literature.
Grasslands of the World: Types and Distribution
This IAS NOVA Interactive Atlas presents Geography through maps for visual learning and exam revision. It locates 38 major grassland systems across every inhabited continent and groups them into temperate grasslands, tropical grasslands and savannas, seasonally flooded grasslands, and montane grasslands. Select any mapped region to examine its location, climate, characteristic vegetation, wildlife and geographical significance.
Temperate grasslands
Great Plains & Prairies · Mexican Plateau Grasslands · Pampas · Campos & Uruguayan Savanna · Patagonian Steppe · Eurasian Steppe · Puszta · Mongolian–Manchurian Steppe · Veld / Highveld · Australian Downs & Mitchell Grasslands · Canterbury–Otago Tussocklands
Tropical / savanna grasslands
Sahel Grasslands · Sudanian & Guinean Savannas · Serengeti–Maasai Savanna · Miombo Savannas · Kalahari & Bushveld Savannas · Cerrado · Llanos · Gran Sabana & Guianan Savannas · Northern Australian Savannas · Indochina Dry Savannas · Deccan Savannas & Semi-arid Grasslands · Banni Grasslands
Flooded grasslands
Pantanal Flooded Grasslands · Sudd Flooded Grasslands · Okavango Flooded Grasslands · Inner Niger Delta Grasslands · Zambezian Flooded Grasslands · Everglades Sawgrass Marsh · Terai–Duar Savannas
Montane grasslands
Tibetan Plateau Steppe · Puna & Altiplano Grasslands · Páramo · Ethiopian Highlands Grasslands · Drakensberg–Maloti Grasslands · Himalayan Alpine Meadows · Shola Grasslands · East African Montane Grasslands
