Location vs. Direction — What's the Difference?

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.

A course along which someone or something moves

A particular place or position

The management or guidance of someone or something

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.

The management, supervision, or guidance of a group or operation

The act or process of locating

The art or action of directing a musical, theatrical, or cinematic production.

A place where something is or could be located; a site.

An authoritative order or command

A site away from a studio at which part or all of a movie is shot

(Music) A word or phrase in a score indicating how a passage is to be played or sung.

A tract of land that has been surveyed and marked off.

Directions Instructions in how to do something or reach a destination

A particular point or place in physical space.

The course along which a person or thing is moving or must move to reach a destination

An act of locating.

The point toward which a person or thing faces or is oriented

(South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.

A course or line of development; a tendency toward a particular end or goal

(legal) A leasing on rent.

A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination. May be relative (e.g. up, left, outbound, dorsal), geographical (e.g. north), rotational (e.g. clockwise), or with respect to an object or location (e.g. toward Boston).

A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.

A general trend for future action.

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

Guidance, instruction.

(Kenya) An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations.

The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc.

The act or process of locating.

(dated) The body of persons who guide or manage a matter; the directorate.

Situation; place; locality.

(archaic) A person's address.

That which is located; a tract of land designated in place.

The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o public affairs or of a bank.

A leasing on rent.

That which is imposed by directing; a guiding or authoritative instruction; prescription; order; command; as, he grave directions to the servants.

A point or extent in space

The name and residence of a person to whom any thing is sent, written upon the thing sent; superscription; address; as, the direction of a letter.

The act of putting something in a certain place or location

The line or course upon which anything is moving or aimed to move, or in which anything is lying or pointing; aim; line or point of tendency; direct line or course; as, the ship sailed in a southeasterly direction.

A determination of the location of something;

The body of managers of a corporation or enterprise; board of directors.

The pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis; - distinguished from elevation. The direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object.

A line leading to a place or point;

The spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves;

A general course along which something has a tendency to develop;

Something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action

The act of managing something;

A message describing how something is to be done;

The act of setting and holding a course;

A formal statement of a command or injunction to do something;

The concentration of attention or energy on something;