Region vs. Country — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Region and Country
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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.
Country
A country is a distinct territorial body or political entity (i.e. a nation).
Region
A large, usually continuous segment of a surface or space
The upper regions of the atmosphere.
Country
A nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory
The country's increasingly precarious economic position
Spain, Italy, and other European countries
Region
A portion of the earth's surface distinguished from others by some characteristic
The coastal region.
The region of storm damage.
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Country
Districts and small settlements outside large urban areas or the capital
A country lane
The airfield is right out in the country
Region
A bioregion.
Country
An area or region with regard to its physical features
A tract of wild country
Region
A political district or unit, often with its adjacent lands
The Osaka region.
Country
Short for country music
Region
An area of the body having natural or arbitrarily assigned boundaries
The abdominal region.
Country
A nation or state.
Region
An area of interest or activity; a sphere
The region of gender studies.
Country
The territory of a nation or state; land.
Region
An approximate degree or amount
Costs in the region of one billion dollars.
Country
The people of a nation or state; populace
The whole country will profit from the new economic reforms.
Region
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.
The equatorial regions
The temperate regions
The polar regions
The upper regions of the atmosphere
Country
The land of a person's birth or citizenship
Foreign travel is restricted in his country.
Region
An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country.
Country
A region, territory, or large tract of land distinguishable by features of topography, biology, or culture
Hill country.
Bible country.
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.
Country
An area or expanse outside cities and towns; a rural area
A vacation in the country.
Region
An administrative subdivision of the European Union.
Country
The people of a district who are eligible for jury service.
Region
A subnational region of Chile; equivalent to province.
Country
A jury.
Region
(Ontario) regional municipality
Country
(Informal) Country music.
Region
Ellipsis of administrative region
Country
Of, relating to, or typical of the country
A country road.
Country cooking.
Region
(figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
Country
Of or relating to country music.
Region
(anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
The abdominal regions
Country
(chiefly British) An area of land; a district, region.
Region
(obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.
Country
A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members of the same race, speakers of the same language etc., or associated with a given person, occupation, species etc.
Region
(obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.
Country
The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area; a sovereign state.
Region
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.
If thence he 'scappe, into whatever world,Or unknown region.
Country
A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.
Region
Tract, part, or space, lying about and including anything; neighborhood; vicinity; sphere.
Philip, tetrarch of .. the region of Trachonitis.
Country
Ellipsis of country music
A country song
A country singer
A country festival
Region
The upper air; the sky; the heavens.
Anon the dreadful thunderDoth rend the region.
Country
(mining) The rock through which a vein runs.
Region
The inhabitants of a district.
Country
From or in the countryside or connected with it.
Region
Place; rank; station.
He is of too high a region.
Country
Of or connected to country music.
Region
The extended spatial location of something;
The farming regions of France
Religions in all parts of the world
Regions of outer space
Country
Originating in India rather than being imported from Europe or elsewhere.
Region
A part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve;
In the abdominal region
Country
A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region of one's birth, permanent residence, or citizenship.
Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred.
I might have learned this by my last exile,that change of countries cannot change my state.
Many a famous realmAnd country, whereof here needs no account
Region
A large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth;
Penguins inhabit the polar regions
Country
Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town.
As they walked, on their way into the country.
God made the covatry, and man made the town.
Only very great men were in the habit of dividing the year between town and country.
Region
The approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of');
It was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job
The price is in the neighborhood of $100
Country
The inhabitants or people of a state or a region; the populace; the public. Hence: (a) One's constituents. (b) The whole body of the electors of state; as, to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country.
All the country in a general voiceCried hate upon him.
Region
A knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about;
It was a limited domain of discourse
Here we enter the region of opinion
The realm of the occult
Country
A jury, as representing the citizens of a country.
Country
The rock through which a vein runs.
Country
Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city.
Country
Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, country manners.
Country
Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country.
She, bowing herself towards him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, spake in her country language.
Country
The territory occupied by a nation;
He returned to the land of his birth
He visited several European countries
Country
A politically organized body of people under a single government;
The state has elected a new president
African nations
Students who had come to the nation's capitol
The country's largest manufacturer
An industrialized land
Country
The people who live in a nation or country;
A statement that sums up the nation's mood
The news was announced to the nation
The whole country worshipped him
Country
An area outside of cities and towns;
His poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country
Country
A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography);
It was a mountainous area
Bible country
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