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Texas Physical Map

Texas crosses four major physical regions — from desert mountains to humid coastal plain — within a single state.

Rendered from SRTM 30m elevation data + Natural Earth rivers/lakes + US Census state boundary. Four versions below, all free.

Highest Point

Guadalupe Peak

8,751 ft

Lowest Point

Gulf of Mexico shore

0 ft

Texas physical map showing the Guadalupe Mountains, Edwards Plateau, Gulf Coastal Plain, and Llano Estacado, with major peaks and cities labeled. Topographic relief from NASA SRTM elevation data.

Choose your version

Two maps, two versions of each.

The same Texas terrain as a classroom map and as wall art. All four are free PDFs.

Texas physical map, labeled: the Guadalupe Mountains, Edwards Plateau, Gulf Coastal Plain, and Llano Estacado, with the capital, cities and highest point marked
Labeled
Texas blank physical map: the same terrain with no labels, for labeling practice
Blank
Physical map

Texas physical map for the classroom

Elevation in color with shaded relief, plus the surrounding states and water for context. The labeled version marks the capital, major cities and the highest point. The blank version leaves them off so students can label the map themselves.

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Texas relief wall art on a dark background
Dark
Texas relief wall art on a light background
Light
Wall art

Texas relief wall art

Texas on its own, with strong shaded relief and no labels. The dark version has the most contrast. The light version uses far less ink on a home printer.

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The physical geography of Texas

Texas rises from the Gulf of Mexico to mountains in the far west. The Gulf Coastal Plain covers the east and south, with long barrier islands along the shore. It ends at the Balcones Escarpment, where the land steps up to the Edwards Plateau and the Hill Country. The Panhandle is part of the High Plains, a flat tableland edged by the Caprock Escarpment. West of the Pecos River are desert basins and mountains, including the Guadalupe Mountains, where Guadalupe Peak is the highest point. The Rio Grande forms the border with Mexico.

Major rivers

  • Rio Grande
  • Red
  • Brazos
  • Colorado
  • Pecos
  • Trinity
  • Sabine
  • Nueces

Find it on the map

  • The Big Bend of the Rio Grande in the southwest
  • The flat High Plains of the Panhandle
  • Rivers running southeast in parallel to the Gulf
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Built from real data, not stock images.

Every Texas physical map on this page was rendered from NASA SRTM 30-meter elevation data, with hydrography from Natural Earth and the shoreline-clipped state outline from the US Census Bureau. Each map is colored over that state’s own elevation range, and the relief shading is exaggerated so gentle terrain still shows.

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Texas political map

The blank outline version of Texas (state borders, no terrain). Useful for political-geography exercises.

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