City vs. Region — What's the Difference?

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.

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.

A center of population, commerce, and culture; a town of significant size and importance.

A large, usually continuous segment of a surface or space

A large town

A portion of the earth's surface distinguished from others by some characteristic

Short for City of London

A bioregion.

An incorporated municipality in the United States with definite boundaries and legal powers set forth in a charter granted by the state.

A political district or unit, often with its adjacent lands

A Canadian municipality of high rank, usually determined by population but varying by province.

An area of the body having natural or arbitrarily assigned boundaries

A large incorporated town in Great Britain, usually the seat of a bishop, with its title conferred by the Crown.

An area of interest or activity; a sphere

The inhabitants of a city considered as a group.

An approximate degree or amount

An ancient Greek city-state.

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.

(Slang) Used in combination as an intensive

An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country.

City The financial and commercial center of London. Used with the.

(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.

A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place.

An administrative subdivision of the European Union.

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

A subnational region of Chile; equivalent to province.

(Australia) The central business district; downtown.

(Ontario) regional municipality

(slang) A large amount of something used after the noun.

Ellipsis of administrative region

A large town.

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

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.

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

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

(obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.

Of or pertaining to a city.

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

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

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.

An incorporated administrative district established by state charter;

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

People living in a large densely populated municipality;

The upper air; the sky; the heavens.

The inhabitants of a district.

Place; rank; station.

The extended spatial location of something;

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

A large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth;

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

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