Region

In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as zones, lands or territories, 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.

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.

As a way of describing spatial areas, the concept of regions is important and widely used among
the many branches of geography, each of which can describe areas in regional terms. For
example, ecoregion is a term used in environmental geography, cultural region in cultural
geography, bioregion in biogeography, and so on. The field of geography that studies regions
themselves is called regional geography. Regions are an area or division, especially part of a
country or the world having definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries.

In the fields of physical geography, ecology, biogeography, zoogeography, and environmental

geography, regions tend to be based on natural features such as ecosystems or biotopes,
biomes, drainage basins, natural regions, mountain ranges, soil types. Where human geography
is concerned, the regions and subregions are described by the discipline of ethnography.
Globalization

Human geography

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