Location vs. Region
Locationnoun
A particular point or place in physical space.
Locationnoun
An act of locating.
Locationnoun
(South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.
Locationnoun
(legal) A leasing on rent.
Locationnoun
A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
Locationnoun
The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc.
Locationnoun
The act or process of locating.
Locationnoun
Situation; place; locality.
Locationnoun
That which is located; a tract of land designated in place.
Locationnoun
A leasing on rent.
Locationnoun
a point or extent in space
Locationnoun
the act of putting something in a certain place or location
Locationnoun
a determination of the location of something;
Locationnoun
a particular place or position
Locationnoun
an actual place or natural setting in which a film or broadcast is made, as distinct from a simulation in a studio
Locationnoun
the action of locating someone or something
Locationnoun
a position or address in computer memory.
Locationnoun
an area where black South Africans were obliged by apartheid laws to live, usually on the outskirts of a town or city. The term was later replaced by township.
Location
In geography, location or place are used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth’s surface or elsewhere. The term location generally implies a higher degree of certainty than place, the latter often indicating an entity with an ambiguous boundary, relying more on human or social attributes of place identity and sense of place than on geometry.
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.
