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Definition of Geographic region
1. Noun. A demarcated area of the Earth.
Specialized synonyms: Soil, Territory, Colony, Dependency, Semidesert, Narco-state, Place, Property, Basin, Catchment Area, Catchment Basin, Drainage Area, Drainage Basin, River Basin, Watershed, Environs, Purlieu, Geographical Zone, Zone, Environment, Environs, Surround, Surroundings, Dust Bowl, Hemisphere, Hot Spot, Hotspot, Panhandle, Country, Rural Area, Sphere, Sphere Of Influence, Field, Settlement, Parcel, Parcel Of Land, Piece Of Ground, Piece Of Land, Tract, Populated Area, Urban Area, Wild, Wilderness, Killing Field, Northern Europe, French Region, Baltic Republic, Baltic State, Colony, Dar Al-islam, House Of Islam, Dar Al-harb, House Of War
Specialized synonyms: Andalucia, Andalusia, Appalachia, Adelie Coast, Adelie Land, Terre Adelie, Bad Lands, Badlands, Barbary, Bithynia, Nubia, Caucasia, Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Coats Land, East, Eastern United States, Southeast, Southeastern United States, Southwest, Southwestern United States, Northeast, Northeastern United States, Northwest, Northwestern United States, Middle West, Midwest, Midwestern United States, Pacific Northwest, Enderby Land, Finger Lakes, Maghreb, Mahgrib, Big Bend, Queen Maud Land, Victoria Land, Wilkes Land, West, Western United States, East Africa, Cappadocia, Galatia, Phrygia, Pontus, Illyria, Caribbean, Bengal, Patagonia, Pampas, Southeast Asia, Manchuria, Turkestan, Turkistan, French Indochina, Mesoamerica, Czechoslovakia, Moravia, Bohemia, Scandinavia, Sachsen, Saxe, Saxony, Rheinland, Rhineland, Brandenburg, Preussen, Prussia, Ruhr, Ruhr Valley, Thuringia, Karelia, Epirus, Laconia, Lycia, Lydia, Thessalia, Thessaly, Arcadia, Middle East, Mideast, Near East, Fertile Crescent, West Bank, Galilee, Gaza, Gaza Strip, Golan, Golan Heights, Canaan, Holy Land, Palestine, Promised Land, Juda, Judah, Judaea, Judea, Philistia, Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Eastern Roman Empire, Western Empire, Western Roman Empire, Serbia, Srbija, Crna Gora, Montenegro, Dalmatia, Labrador, Canadian Maritime Provinces, Maritime Provinces, Maritimes, Klondike, Austria-hungary, British Empire, Cumbria, New Forest, East Anglia, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Northumbria, West Country, Wessex, Ulster, Caledonia, Hindustan, Sikkim, Canara, Kanara, Punjab, Gujarat, Gujerat, Maharashtra, Gulf States, Elam, Susiana, Levant, Macedon, Macedonia, Makedonija, Thrace, Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Chaldaea, Chaldea, Chaldaea, Chaldea, Sumer, Assyria, Phenicia, Phoenicia, Gallia, Gaul, Riviera, Midi, Normandie, Normandy, Orleanais, Lyonnais, Savoy, Guiana, Friesland, Frisia, Thule, Ultima Thule, Lapland, Lappland, Tartary, Tatary, Mongolia, Spanish Sahara, Western Sahara, Cashmere, Jammu And Kashmir, Kashmir, Parthia, Najd, Nejd, Hedjaz, Hejaz, Hijaz, Chechen Republic, Chechenia, Chechnya, Siberia, European Russia, Livonia, Colchis, Donbas, Donbass, Donets Basin, Iberia, Latin America, Galicia, Leon, Soudan, Sudan, Tanganyika, Kurdistan, Iraqi Kurdistan, Ionia, East Coast, West Coast, New England, Mid-atlantic States, Gulf States, Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States Of America, Dixie, Dixieland, South, South, Deep South, Sunbelt, Tidewater, Tidewater Region, Piedmont, North, Carolina, Carolinas, Dakota, Bluegrass, Bluegrass Country, Bluegrass Region, Low Countries, Lusitania, Schlesien, Silesia, Slask, Slezsko, Big Sur, Silicon Valley, Black Africa, Sub-saharan Africa, Scythia, North Africa, West Africa
Generic synonyms: Region
Lexicographical Neighbors of Geographic Region
Literary usage of Geographic region
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1888)
"A. lanceolata (Cavanilles) of the same geographic region is a closely allied
species, but its timber is more close-grained, particularly hard and heavy. ..."
2. Measurements for Competitiveness in Electronics (1994)
"Table 105 World Market for Optical-Fiber Communications Components by Geographic
Region (1992 to 1998) 1992 1994 1996 1998 geographic region North America ..."
3. The Role of Natural Gas in Environmental Policy edited by Stephen L. McDonald (1993)
"geographic region geographic region Single Country Single Country Single Country
World Wide Trade ETCs; public-private sector World Wide Trade Large-scale ..."
4. Enhancing Sme Competitiveness: The OECD Bologna Ministerial Conference by Oecd (2001)
"One model suggests that a concentration of firms within a particular industry in
a geographic region facilitates knowledge spillovers across firms (the ..."
5. Water Quality Indicators Guide: Surface Waters by Charles R. Terrell (1993)
"Do you see "conditions normally expected under pristine conditions in your
geographic region?" Is the water "clear or very slightly muddy after a storm ..."
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