City vs. Region

Citynoun

A large settlement, bigger than a town.

Citynoun

A settlement granted special status by royal charter or letters patent; traditionally, a settlement with a cathedral regardless of size.

Citynoun

(Australia) The central business district; downtown.

Citynoun

A large town.

Citynoun

A corporate town; in the United States, a town or collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a board of aldermen and a common council; in Great Britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see.

Citynoun

The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city.

Cityadjective

Of or pertaining to a city.

Citynoun

a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts;

Citynoun

an incorporated administrative district established by state charter;

Citynoun

people living in a large densely populated municipality;

Citynoun

a large town

Citynoun

a town created a city by charter and usually containing a cathedral.

Citynoun

a municipal centre incorporated by the state or province.

Citynoun

a place or situation characterized by a specified attribute

Citynoun

short for City of London

Citynoun

the financial and commercial institutions located in the City of London

City

A city is a large human settlement. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks.

Regionnoun

Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons.

Regionnoun

An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country or the European Union.

Regionnoun

(historical) Such a division of the city of Rome and of the territory about Rome, of which the number varied at different times; a district, quarter, or ward.

Regionnoun

(figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.

Regionnoun

(anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.

Regionnoun

(obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.

Regionnoun

(obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.

Regionnoun

One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract.

Regionnoun

Tract, part, or space, lying about and including anything; neighborhood; vicinity; sphere.

Regionnoun

The upper air; the sky; the heavens.

Regionnoun

The inhabitants of a district.

Regionnoun

Place; rank; station.

Regionnoun

the extended spatial location of something;

Regionnoun

a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve;

Regionnoun

a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth;

Regionnoun

the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of');

Regionnoun

a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about;

Region

In geography, regions are areas that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and the interaction of humanity and the environment (environmental geography). Geographic regions and sub-regions are mostly described by their imprecisely defined, and sometimes transitory boundaries, except in human geography, where jurisdiction areas such as national borders are defined in law.