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Sign in to saveIn geography, regions, otherwise referred to as areas, zones, lands or territories, are portions of the Earth's surface that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and/or 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. More confined or well bounded portions are called locat
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A region is a portion of Earth's surface defined by shared characteristics—such as physical features like mountains or climate, human factors like culture or politics, or how people interact with their environment. Regions matter because they help us understand and organize the world's complexity, though their boundaries are often unclear and can shift over time, especially compared to legal borders that define political jurisdictions.
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- Globalization
- Continental regions
- Regional geography
- Human geography
- Tourism region
- Natural resource regions
- Religious regions
- Local administrative regions
- Traditional or informal regions
- Functional regions
- Military regions
- Media geography
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as areas, zones, lands or territories, are portions of the Earth's surface that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and/or 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. More confined or well bounded portions are called locations or places. The areal extent of a geographical region is often expressed in square kilometres or hectares (as in, for example, the largest countries).
Apart from the global continental regions, there are also hydrospheric and atmospheric regions that cover the oceans, and discrete climates above the land and water masses of the planet. The land and water global regions are divided into subregions geographically bounded by large geological features that influence large-scale ecologies, such as plains and features.