Land vs. Region — What's the Difference?

Land is the solid surface of Earth that is not permanently submerged in water. The vast majority of human activity throughout history has occurred in land areas that support agriculture, habitat, and various natural resources.

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 state of Germany or Austria.

A large, usually continuous segment of a surface or space

Put (someone or something) on land from a boat

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

Come down through the air and rest on the ground or another surface

A bioregion.

Cause someone to be in (a difficult situation)

A political district or unit, often with its adjacent lands

Inflict (a blow) on someone

An area of the body having natural or arbitrarily assigned boundaries

The solid ground of the earth.

An area of interest or activity; a sphere

Ground or soil

An approximate degree or amount

A topographically or functionally distinct tract

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.

A nation; a country.

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

The people of a nation, district, or region.

(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.

Lands Territorial possessions or property.

An administrative subdivision of the European Union.

Public or private landed property; real estate.

A subnational region of Chile; equivalent to province.

(Law) The solid material of the earth as well as the natural and manmade things attached to it and the rights and interests associated with it.

(Ontario) regional municipality

An agricultural or farming area

Ellipsis of administrative region

Farming considered as a way of life.

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

An area or realm

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

The raised portion of a grooved surface, as on a phonograph record.

(obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.

To bring to and unload on land

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

To set (a vehicle) down on land or another surface

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.

(Informal) To cause to arrive in a place or condition

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

To catch and pull in (a fish)

The upper air; the sky; the heavens.

(Informal) To win; secure

The inhabitants of a district.

(Informal) To deliver

Place; rank; station.

To come to shore

The extended spatial location of something;

To disembark

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

To descend toward and settle onto the ground or another surface

A large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth;

(Informal) To arrive in a place or condition

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

To come to rest in a certain way or place

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

The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.

Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected.

A country or region.

A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.

The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.

Realm, domain.

(agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.

A shock or fright.

(electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.

On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.

(travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.

(obsolete) The ground or floor.

(nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.

In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.

(ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.

A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.

Lant; urine

(intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.

(dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.

(intransitive) To come into rest.

(intransitive) To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.

(transitive) To bring to land.

To capture or arrest.

(transitive) To acquire; to secure.

To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score

(transitive) (of a blow) To deliver.

(intransitive) (of a punch) To connect

(intransitive) To go down well with an audience.

Urine. See Lant.

The solid part of the surface of the earth; - opposed to water as constituting a part of such surface, especially to oceans and seas; as, to sight land after a long voyage.

Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract.

Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet land; good or bad land.

The inhabitants of a nation or people.

The mainland, in distinction from islands.

The ground or floor.

The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing.

Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, etc., and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc., or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc.; real estate.

The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; - called also landing.

In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun between the grooves.

To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark.

To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish.

To set down after conveying; to cause to fall, alight, or reach; to bring to the end of a course; as, he landed the quoit near the stake; to be thrown from a horse and landed in the mud; to land one in difficulties or mistakes.

To pilot (an airplane) from the air onto the land; as, to land the plane on a highway.

To come to the end of a course; to arrive at a destination, literally or figuratively; as, he landed in trouble; after hithchiking for a week, he landed in Los Angeles.

To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark.

To reach and come to rest on land after having been in the air; as, the arrow landed in a flower bed; the golf ball landed in a sand trap; our airplane landed in Washington.

The land on which real estate is located;

Material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use);

The solid part of the earth's surface;

Territory over which rule or control is exercised;

The territory occupied by a nation;

A domain in which something is dominant;

Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use;

The people who live in a nation or country;

A politically organized body of people under a single government;

United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one-step photographic process (1909-1991)

Working the land as an occupation or way of life;

Reach or come to rest;

Cause to come to the ground;

Bring into a different state;

Bring ashore;

Deliver (a blow);

Arrive on shore;

Shoot at and force to come down;

Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land;

Operating or living or growing in water;