region

n. area, territory, domain; field, area of activity or interest, sphere

Region is a geographical term that is used in various ways among the different branches of geography. In general, region medium-scale area of land or water, smaller than the whole areas of interest (which could be, for example, the world, a nation, a river basin, mountain range, and so on), and larger than a specific site or location. A region can be seen as a collection of smaller units (as in "the New England states") or as one part of a larger whole (as in "the New England region of the United States").
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France is divided into 26 regions or régions (in French), of which 21 are in continental metropolitan France, one is the island of Corsica, and four lie overseas. Régions in mainland France are further subdivided in between 1 and 8 départements.
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Noun
1. the extended spatial location of something; "the farming regions of France"; "religions in all parts of the world"; "regions of outer space"
(synonym) part
(hypernym) location
(hyponym) atmosphere, air
2. a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve; "in the abdominal region"
(synonym) area
(hypernym) body part
(hyponym) erogenous zone
3. a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth; "penguins inhabit the polar regions"
(hypernym) location
(hyponym) area, country
4. the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of'); "it was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job"; "the price is in the neighborhood of $100"
(synonym) neighborhood
(hypernym) indefinite quantity
5. a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about; "it was a limited domain of discourse"; "here we enter the region of opinion"; "the realm of the occult"
(synonym) domain, realm
(hypernym) knowledge domain, knowledge base

n. region, area, territory; domain, field, area of activity or interest, sphere; section, part, segment

n. region, district, county; area, country