panhandle vs geographic area

panhandle and geographic area both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
panhandle	Yes	No	Yes	No
geographic area	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, geographic area is a hypernym of panhandle; that is, geographic area is a word with a broader meaning than panhandle:

panhandle: a relatively narrow strip of land projecting from some larger area
geographic area: a demarcated area of the Earth

Other hypernyms of panhandle include geographic region, geographical area, geographical region.

panhandle (noun)	geographic area (noun)
the handle of a pan	a demarcated area of the Earth
a relatively narrow strip of land projecting from some larger area

panhandle (verb)	geographic area (verb)
beg by accosting people in the street and asking for money