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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.

An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country.

(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.

An administrative subdivision of the European Union.

A subnational region of Chile; equivalent to province.

(Ontario) (dot=;) {{ng|a county-level municipality.}}

(administrative region)

# A subprovincial region of Quebec; the primary level subdivision; a prefecture.

(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.

An approximate range.

(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.