From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Region
is a
geographic
term used in many ways in the different types of geography. In general, a region is a medium-scale area of land or water. It is smaller than the whole area of something (which could be, for example, the
world
, a
nation
, a mountain range, and so on). A
climate
zone is one kind of region.
A region is larger than a specific
location
. It may be seen as a
collection
of smaller things (as in "the
New England
states
") or as one part of a larger whole (as in "the New England region of the
United States
"). In some countries a region is a unit of
local government
.