Definition of Geographical zone

1. Noun. Any of the regions of the surface of the Earth loosely divided according to latitude or longitude.

Exact synonyms: Zone
Specialized synonyms: Climatic Zone, Time Zone, Transit Zone
Generic synonyms: Geographic Area, Geographic Region, Geographical Area, Geographical Region
Derivative terms: Zonary

Lexicographical Neighbors of Geographical Zone

geographic expedition
geographic information science
geographic information system
geographic keratitis
geographic locations
geographic point
geographic region
geographic stippling of nails
geographic tongue
geographical
geographical-area
geographical area
geographical mile
geographical point
geographical region
geographical zone (current term)
geographically
geographick
geographics
geographies
geographist
geographists
geography
geography fair
geohazard
geohazards
geoheliocentric
geoheliocentrism
geohydrologic
geohydrologies

Literary usage of Geographical zone

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Books of Chronicles: With Maps, Notes, and Introduction by William Emery Barnes (1899)
"If this be so, the reason of their being reckoned to Shem must be that they were in the geographical zone which belonged to the Semites. ..."

2. Favored Nation Treatment: An Analysis of the Most Favored Nation Clause by Joseph Rogers Herod (1901)
"It was unquestionably to secure closer trade relations between the United States and the countries situated within the geographical zone, and, ..."

3. Mission of the North American People, Geographical, Social, and Political by William Gilpin (1874)
"This isothermal zone deflects from the geographical zone (which is a flat section of the globe), undulating to the north and to the south, to preserve a ..."

4. Human Geography: An Attempt at a Positive Classification, Principles and by Jean Brunhes, Isaiah Bowman, Richard Elwood Dodge, Irville Charles Le Compte (1920)
"(geographical zone).—The wooden house, as it exists in Finland and Russia, belongs, as we have said, to the great northern forest. ..."

5. A Cyclopædia of the Physical Sciences: Comprising Acoustics, Astronomy by John Pringle Nichol (1860)
"Placing one's self in the are scarcely adequate to ripen the fruit, the со centre of such a geographical zone, and neglect- is not intense enough to kill ..."

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