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Region vs Locality - What's the difference?

region | locality |

As nouns the difference between region and locality

is that region is 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 while locality is the fact or quality of having a position in space.

region

English

Noun

(wikipedia region) (en noun)
  • 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
  • An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country or the European Union.
  • (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.
  • (figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
  • (anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
    • the abdominal regions
  • (obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.
  • (obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.

    • Related terms

    * regional * regionally * regionarius * regionary * regionic * radiate * radiation

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    locality

    English

    Noun

    (localities)
  • The fact or quality of having a position in space.
  • * Glanvill
    • It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality .
  • (p) The features or surroundings of a particular place.
  • The situation or position of an object.
  • An area or district considered as the site of certain activities; a neighbourhood.
  • Limitation to a county, district, or place.
    • locality of trial
    (Blackstone)
  • (dated, phrenology) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.

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