English-French translations for region

• région
  Cette région peut trouver une solution en tant que région. This region can find a solution as a region.
  La déclaration parle de «régions insulaires». The opinion mentions 'island regions' .
  De quelle région parlons-nous? What region are we talking about?
• zone
  Zones de montagne et fonds structurels Mountain regions and Structural Funds
  Plus de la moitié de la population de cette région vit en zone rurale. Over half the population of the region lives in rural areas.
  Objet: Zones périphériques pour les eurotaxes Subject: Peripheral regions and eurotaxes

Definition of region

• 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
• The inhabitants of a region or district of a country
• Place; rank; station; dignity
• The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region

Examples

• the equatorial regions
• the temperate regions
• the polar regions
• the upper regions of the atmosphere
• the abdominal regions

Related words

• subregion
• regional
• regionally
• regions
• regionalist
• regionalism
• micro-region
• meso-region
• locoregional