Texas Panhandle
The northwest corner of Texas is known as the Texas Panhandle, probably because it juts out in stark plaintiveness from the rest of the state. Flat and dry, the steady prevailing winds can sometimes create mild dust storms, though modern farming techniques have much reduced the terrible dust storms which occurred during the "Dust Bowl Days" of the Great Depression.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Amarillo and Lubbock.
Amarillo
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Amarillo, which means "yellow" in Spanish, is the center of the Texas Panhandle at the edge of the Great Plains.
Lubbock
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Lubbock is the largest city in the Panhandle of Texas and serves as the area's agricultural and economic hub. Lubbock, commonly known as the Hub City, is in the center of the South Plains, an expansive cotton-growing region.
Abilene
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Abilene is a city in the North Central Plains of Texas, possibly best known as the destination the fictional family of the Abilene paradox travels to.
Destinations to Discover
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High Plains
The High Plains are a subregion of the Great Plains, mainly in the Western United States, but also partly in the Midwest states of Nebraska, Kansas, and South Dakota, generally encompassing the western part of the Great Plains before the region reaches the Rocky Mountains.
Llano Estacado
The Llano Estacado is a region in the Panhandle of Texas. Notoriously flat and largely rural, the Llano Estacado is famous for its wide-open prairielands and unmolested expanses that harken back to the days when Texas was largely unexplored frontier.
Northern Edwards Plateau
The Northern Edwards Plateau is the far southern reach of the Panhandle of Texas.
Texas Panhandle
- Type: region
- Description: region of Texas
- Also known as: “Texas panhandle”
- Location: Texas, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
35.4833° or 35° 28′ 60″ northLongitude of center
-101.4° or 101° 24′ westWikidata ID
Q2297417
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Texas Panhandle” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تكساس بانهاندل”
- Basque: “Texas Panhandle”
- Catalan: “Texas Panhandle”
- Chinese: “德克萨斯狭地”
- Chinese: “德克薩斯州走廊”
- Chinese: “德克薩斯州鍋柄狀地區”
- Czech: “Panhandle”
- Czech: “Texas Panhandle”
- Dutch: “Texas Panhandle”
- Esperanto: “Teksasa Patotenilo”
- Estonian: “Texase pannivars”
- Faroese: “Texas Panhandle”
- French: “Panhandle du Texas”
- French: “Texas Panhandle”
- German: “Nordtexas”
- German: “Texas Panhandle”
- Hebrew: “אזור הפאנהנדל”
- Italian: “Texas Panhandle”
- Japanese: “テキサス・パンハンドル”
- Japanese: “テキサス州の回廊地帯”
- Korean: “텍사스 팬핸들”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Texas Panhandle”
- Norwegian: “Texas Panhandle”
- Polish: “Texas Panhandle”
- Portuguese: “Panhandle do Texas”
- Portuguese: “Panhandle”
- Portuguese: “Texas Panhandle”
- Romanian: “Mânerul Texasului”
- Romanian: “Texas Panhandle”
- Russian: “Техасский выступ”
- Slovenian: “Texas Panhandle”
- Spanish: “Mango de Texas”
- Swedish: “Texas Panhandle”
- Western Frisian: “Panhandle fan Teksas”
- Western Frisian: “Teksaanske Panhandle”
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