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Countries vs Regions - What's the difference?

countries | regions |

As nouns the difference between countries and regions

is that countries is plural of country while regions is plural of lang=en.

countries

English

Noun

(head)
  • .
  • *{{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
    • , date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}

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    regions

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • the rest of the country excluding the capital city or metropolitan region
  • * 2000 , Emer Hughes, Fair city losing out to the regions'', ''Sunday Business Post 7 November:
    • Tom Clancy of Elan Recruitment thinks that staff shortages in the regions could be as severe as in Dublin.
  • * 2003 , Peter Hetherington, Study points civil servants towards the regions'', ''The Guardian , 10 September:
    • Three government departments may be named for a move from London to the regions .

    Synonyms

    * (rest of the country) the provinces (British)

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