We’re Making the Ultimate Map of Texas’s Regions—and We Want Your Input

In Austin, just north of our imposing pink granite seat of government, inlaid on the new Texas Capitol Mall, is a large map of the state. Visitors to the promenade can walk across seven geographical regions, strolling from the Panhandle Plains, in the north; to Prairies and Lakes, in the north-central area; to the Piney Woods, in the east; to the Gulf Coast and the South Texas Plains; and from Big Bend Country, out west, to the Hill Country, in the middle-ish part of the state. Travel Texas, the state’s tourism office, uses the same seven regions in the way it divides the state. And Texas Parks and Wildlife seems to follow suit, though it spells “Piney Woods” as one word. But this particular convention, despite…

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