panhandle vs geographical area

panhandle and geographical area both are nouns.

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

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

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

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

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