West Texas

==Counties==
The counties included in any Texas region vary depending on the organization compiling the list. ''Texas Counties.net'' acknowledges the variations while including 70 counties in its definition of West Texas. Within these broad boundaries, encompassing some of the [[Panhandle (Texas)|Panhandle]], are four principal metropolitan areas: [[El Paso, Texas|El Paso]], [[Midland, Texas|Midland]]/[[Odessa, Texas|Odessa]], [[Lubbock, Texas|Lubbock]], [[Amarillo, Texas|Amarillo]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Regions of Texas|url=http://www.texascounties.net/statistics/regions.htm|publisher=Texas Counties.net|access-date=13 October 2014}}</ref>

The counties included are [[Andrews County, Texas|Andrews]], [[Bailey County, Texas|Bailey]], [[Borden County, Texas|Borden]], [[Brewster County, Texas|Brewster]], [[Brown County, Texas|Brown]], [[Callahan County, Texas|Callahan]], [[Castro County, Texas|Castro]], [[Cochran County, Texas|Cochran]], [[Coke County, Texas|Coke]], [[Coleman County, Texas|Coleman]], [[Comanche County, Texas|Comanche]], [[Concho County, Texas|Concho]], [[Crane County, Texas|Crane]], [[Crockett County, Texas|Crockett]], [[Crosby County, Texas|Crosby]], [[Culberson County, Texas|Culberson]], [[Dawson County, Texas|Dawson]], [[Deaf Smith County, Texas|Deaf Smith]], [[Dickens County, Texas|Dickens]], [[Eastland County, Texas|Eastland]], [[Ector County, Texas|Ector]], [[El Paso County, Texas|El Paso]], [[Fisher County, Texas|Fisher]], [[Floyd County, Texas|Floyd]], [[Gaines County, Texas|Gaines]], [[Garza County, Texas|Garza]], [[Glasscock County, Texas|Glasscock]], [[Hale County, Texas|Hale]], [[Haskell County, Texas|Haskell]], [[Hockley County, Texas|Hockley]], [[Howard County, Texas|Howard]], [[Hudspeth County, Texas|Hudspeth]], [[Irion County, Texas|Irion]], [[Jeff Davis County, Texas|Jeff Davis]], [[Jones County, Texas|Jones]], [[Kent County, Texas|Kent]], [[Kimble County, Texas|Kimble]], [[King County, Texas|King]], [[Knox County, Texas|Knox]], [[Lamb County, Texas|Lamb]], [[Loving County, Texas|Loving]], [[Lubbock County, Texas|Lubbock]], [[Lynn County, Texas|Lynn]], [[Martin County, Texas|Martin]], [[Mason County, Texas|Mason]], [[McCulloch County, Texas|McCulloch]], [[Menard County, Texas|Menard]], [[Midland County, Texas|Midland]], [[Mitchell County, Texas|Mitchell]], [[Motley County, Texas|Motley]], [[Nolan County, Texas|Nolan]], [[Parmer County, Texas|Parmer]], [[Potter County, Texas|Potter]], [[Pecos County, Texas|Pecos]], [[Presidio County, Texas|Presidio]], [[Randall County, Texas|Randall]], [[Reagan County, Texas|Reagan]], [[Reeves County, Texas|Reeves]], [[Runnels County, Texas|Runnels]], [[Schleicher County, Texas|Schleicher]], [[Scurry County, Texas|Scurry]], [[Shackelford County, Texas|Shackelford]], [[Stephens County, Texas|Stephens]], [[Sterling County, Texas|Sterling]], [[Stonewall County, Texas|Stonewall]], [[Sutton County, Texas|Sutton]],  [[Terrell County, Texas|Terrell]], [[Terry County, Texas|Terry]], [[Throckmorton County, Texas|Throckmorton]], [[Upton County, Texas|Upton]], [[Ward County, Texas|Ward]], [[Winkler County, Texas|Winkler]], and [[Yoakum County, Texas|Yoakum]].