Canyon
Canyon is a city in the High Plains region of the Texas Panhandle. It is home to the West Texas branch of Texas A&M University, the most prestigious in the region, and is the gateway city to Palo Duro Canyon.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Panhandle–Plains Historical Museum and Bain–Schaeffer Buffalo Stadium.
Panhandle–Plains Historical Museum
Museum
Photo: Who What Where Nguyen Why, Public domain.
Panhandle–Plains Historical Museum is a history museum located on the campus of West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas, United States, a small city south of Amarillo.
Bain–Schaeffer Buffalo Stadium
Stadium
Bain–Schaeffer Buffalo Stadium is an American college football stadium located in Canyon, Texas. Located on the campus of West Texas A&M University, the stadium is the home venue for the West Texas A&M Buffaloes football program.
Canyon
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Randall, Texas, United States, North America
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Latitude
34.979° or 34° 58′ 44″ northLongitude
-101.9282° or 101° 55′ 42″ westPopulation
15,300Elevation
3,543 feet (1,080 metres)United Nations Location Code
US AYOOpen location code
856WX3HC+HPOpenStreetMap ID
node 151699093OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Canyon” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كانيون”
- Basque: “Canyon”
- Belarusian: “Каньён (Тэхас)”
- Belarusian: “Каньён”
- Catalan: “Canyon”
- Cebuano: “Canyon”
- Chechen: “Каньйон”
- Chinese: “Canyon”
- Chinese: “坎寧”
- Croatian: “Canyon”
- Dagbani: “Canyon”
- Danish: “Canyon”
- Dutch: “Canyon”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كانيون”
- Esperanto: “Canyon”
- Finnish: “Canyon”
- French: “Canyon”
- German: “Canyon”
- German: “Kanjono en Teksaso”
- Gilaki: “کنين”
- Greek: “Κάνιον”
- Greek: “Κάνυον”
- Haitian: “Canyon, Texas”
- Haitian: “Canyon”
- Hungarian: “Canyon”
- Irish: “Canyon, Texas”
- Irish: “Canyon”
- Italian: “Canyon”
- Japanese: “キャニオン (テキサス州)”
- Japanese: “キャニオン市”
- Korean: “캐니언”
- Ladin: “Canyon”
- Lithuanian: “Kanjonas”
- Malagasy: “Canyon, Texas”
- Malagasy: “Canyon”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Canyon”
- Navajo: “Tsékooh”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Canyon”
- Persian: “کانیون، تگزاس”
- Persian: “کانیون”
- Polish: “Canyon”
- Portuguese: “Canyon”
- Russian: “Каньон”
- Serbian: “Канјон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Canyon, Texas”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Canyon”
- South Azerbaijani: “کانیون، تکزاس”
- Spanish: “Canyon (Texas)”
- Spanish: “Canyon”
- Swedish: “Canyon, Texas”
- Swedish: “Canyon”
- Tatar: “Каньйон”
- Turkish: “Canyon, Teksas”
- Turkish: “Canyon”
- Ukrainian: “Каньйон”
- Uzbek: “Canyon”
- Uzbek: “Cанён”
- Vietnamese: “Canyon, Texas”
- Vietnamese: “Canyon”
- Volapük: “Canyon”
- Waray (Philippines): “Canyon, Texas”
- Waray (Philippines): “Canyon”
- Welsh: “Canyon, Texas”
- Welsh: “Canyon”
- “Canyon”
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