Location vs. Landmark — 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 landmark is a recognizable natural or artificial feature used for navigation, a feature that stands out from its near environment and is often visible from long distances. In modern use, the term can also be applied to smaller structures or features, that have become local or national symbols.

A particular place or position

An object or feature of a landscape or town that is easily seen and recognized from a distance, especially one that enables someone to establish their location

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.

An event or discovery marking an important stage or turning point in something

The act or process of locating

A prominent identifying feature of a landscape.

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

A fixed marker, such as a concrete block, that indicates a boundary line.

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

An event marking an important stage of development or a turning point in history.

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

A building or site with historical significance, especially one marked for preservation by a municipal or national government.

A particular point or place in physical space.

Having great import or significance

An act of locating.

To accord the status of a landmark to; declare to be a landmark.

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

(historical) An object that marks the boundary of a piece of land (usually a stone, or a tree).

(legal) A leasing on rent.

A recognizable natural or man-made feature used for navigation.

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

A notable location with historical, cultural, or geographical significance.

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

A major event or discovery.

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

(US) To officially designate a site or building as a landmark.

The act or process of locating.

A mark to designate the boundary of land; any mark or fixed object (as a marked tree, a stone, a ditch, or a heap of stones) by which the limits of a farm, a town, or other portion of territory may be known and preserved.

Situation; place; locality.

Any conspicuous object on land that serves as a guide; some prominent object, as a hill or steeple.

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

A structure that has special significance, such as a building with historical associations;

A leasing on rent.

An event or accomplishment of great significance; as, Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark of the civil rights movement. Also used attributively, as a landmark court decision.

A point or extent in space

The position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape;

The act of putting something in a certain place or location

An event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend;

A determination of the location of something;

A mark showing the boundary of a piece of land

An anatomical structure used as a point of origin in locating other anatomical structures (as in surgery) or as point from which measurements can be taken