What is region?

  • (noun): A large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth.
    Example: "Penguins inhabit the polar regions"
    See also — Additional definitions below

Region

Region is most commonly found as a term used in terrestrial and astrophysics sciences also an area, notably among the different sub-disciplines of geography, studied by regional geographers. Regions consist of subregions that contain clusters of like areas that are distinctive by their uniformity of description based on a range of statistical data, for example demographic, and locales. In astrophysics some regions have science-specific terms such as galactic clusters.

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Some articles on region:

Geography Of Puerto Rico - Physical Geography
... through the entire island, dividing it into the northern and southern region ... The mountain region accounts for approximately 60% of the land area ...
Queensland Police - Regions
... There are eight police regions and four commands in the State of Queensland, each under command of an Assistant Commissioner Far Northern Region Northern Region Central Region North Coast Region Metropolitan ...
Venetian Slovenia
... Friulian Sclavanie, Venetian Schiavonia Veneta) is a small mountainous region in northeastern Italy ... Most of the region is located in the Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, in the area between the towns of Cividale del Friuli, Tarcento and Gemona ... It is part of the Province of Udine in the region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia ...
Demographics Of Guinea - Ethnic Groups
... French, Fula or Fulani in English, who are chiefly found in the mountainous region of Fouta Djallon Maninka ... mostly inhabiting the savanna of Upper Guinea and the Forest region Susus or Soussous ... Several small groups (Gerzé or Kpelle, Toma, Kissis, etc.) in the forest region and Bagas (including Landoumas), Koniagis etc ...
Geography Of The Philippines - Political Geography - Provinces - List of Landlocked Provinces in The Philippines
... in the Philippines All provinces of Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) Apayao, Abra, Kalinga, Mt ... Province, Ifugao and Benguet Two provinces of Cagayan Valley (Region II) Nueva Vizcaya and Quirino Two provinces of Central Luzon (Region III) Nueva Ecija and Tarlac Four provinces of Mindanao ...

More definitions of "region":

  • (noun): The approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in 'in the region of').
    Example: "It was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job"
    Synonyms: neighborhood
  • (noun): A part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve.
    Example: "In the abdominal region"
    Synonyms: area
  • (noun): The extended spatial location of something.
    Synonyms: part
  • (noun): A knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about.
    Example: "Here we enter the region of opinion"
    Synonyms: domain, realm

Famous quotes containing the word region:

    For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    When the excessively shy force themselves to be forward, they are frequently surprisingly unsubtle and overdirect and even rude: they have entered an extreme region beyond their normal personality, an area of social crime where gradations don’t count; unavailable to them are the instincts and taboos that booming extroverts, who know the territory of self-advancement far better, can rely on.
    Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)

    It was the most wild and desolate region we had camped in, where, if anywhere, one might expect to meet with befitting inhabitants, but I heard only the squeak of a nighthawk flitting over. The moon in her first quarter, in the fore part of the night, setting over the bare rocky hills garnished with tall, charred, and hollow stumps or shells of trees, served to reveal the desolation.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)