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A map of the varied regions of Texas. This section was reviewed by Dr. David R. Butler, Texas State University System Regents’ Professor of Geography. The principal physical regions of Texas are usually listed as follows: I. Gulf Coastal Plains.
The physical geographical regions of Texas are four: the Gulf Coastal Plains, the Great Plains, the Interior Lowlands, and the Range Province. Texas is located in the south-central part of America, and the Gulf of Mexico is the lowest point in Texas.
Texas Coast Map showing the coastal bend region of Texas state of USA including counties, cities and highways.
There are six main geographic areas in Texas: East Texas, the Gulf Coast, the Rio Grande Valley, the Blackland Prairies, the High Plains and West Texas. In the south, the Gulf Coast Plain meets the Gulf of Mexico.
The state's eastern regions, such as the Coastal Plains, are marked by flat, low-lying land with fertile soil ideal for agriculture, supporting crops like rice and cotton. Elevation varies significantly across the state, with Guadalupe Peak rising to 8,751 feet, the highest point in Texas, while the lowest point is sea level along the Gulf Coast.
Generally, Texas is divided into 10 natural regions or ecoregions: the Piney Woods, the Gulf Prairies and marshes, the Post Oak Savanah, the Blackland Prairies, the Cross Timbers, the South Texas Plains, the Edwards Plateau, the Rolling Plains, the High Plains, and the Trans-Pecos.
The Texas Coastal Plain, a strip about a hundred miles wide extending from Nueces Bay to Galveston Bay, is underlain by sedimentary strata of Mesozoic (Lower and Upper Cretaceous) and Cenozoic age. These beds are mainly unconsolidated, and as a rule they dip gently toward the Gulf.
Physiography—The Coastal Plain, a 320,000-square-mile zone that extends east from the western limits of the southern forest in Texas to the Atlantic shore, supports the most extensive and productive pine forests of the South.
Area: The West Gulf Coastal Plain covers roughly 45,250 sq km (17,470 sq miles) in northeastern Texas and Louisiana, and an additional 276,460 sq km (106,740 sq miles) along the full eastern side of Texas along the Gulf of Mexico.
Texas has four major physical regions: 1) The Gulf Coastal Plains, from the Gulf of Mexico inland to the Balcones Fault and the Eastern Cross Timbers; 2) The Interior Lowlands are bounded by the Caprock Escarpment to the west, the Edwards Plateau to the South, and the Eastern Cross Timbers to the east; 3) The Great Plains that include the Llano ...