The Waxhaws is a geographical area in the Piedmont region of North Carolina and South Carolina, United States. It encompasses the areas of Lancaster County, South Carolina and Union and Mecklenburg counties in North Carolina. The name is derived from that of the Indigenous people who inhabited the area at the time of its colonization by Westerners, the Waxhaw people. Much of the area is now the territory of the Catawba Indian Nation.