Location vs. Region — What's the Difference?

A point in a system, network, or scheme where goods are stored or services are provided.

A district into which a country or city is divided for administrative, electoral, or other purposes.

A site or setting of a particular activity or event.

A portion of space having physical or conceptual boundaries.

A place where something exists or originates.

An administrative division in some countries.

In geography, location or place are used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth’s surface or elsewhere. The term location generally implies a higher degree of certainty than place, the latter often indicating an entity with an ambiguous boundary, relying more on human or social attributes of place identity and sense of place than on geometry.

An area, especially part of a country, having definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries.

A particular place or position

In geography, regions 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.

An area where black South Africans were obliged by apartheid laws to live, usually on the outskirts of a town or city. The term was later replaced by township.

A large, usually continuous segment of a surface or space

The act or process of locating

A portion of the earth's surface distinguished from others by some characteristic

A place where something is or could be located; a site.

A bioregion.

A site away from a studio at which part or all of a movie is shot

A political district or unit, often with its adjacent lands

A tract of land that has been surveyed and marked off.

An area of the body having natural or arbitrarily assigned boundaries

A particular point or place in physical space.

An area of interest or activity; a sphere

An act of locating.

An approximate degree or amount

(South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.

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.

(legal) A leasing on rent.

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

A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.

(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.

The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc

An administrative subdivision of the European Union.

(Kenya) An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations.

A subnational region of Chile; equivalent to province.

The act or process of locating.

(Ontario) regional municipality

Situation; place; locality.

Ellipsis of administrative region

That which is located; a tract of land designated in place.

(figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.

A leasing on rent.

(anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.

A point or extent in space

(obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.

The act of putting something in a certain place or location

(obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.

A determination of the location of something;

One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract.

An address or position on the internet, especially a website's URL.

Tract, part, or space, lying about and including anything; neighborhood; vicinity; sphere.

The upper air; the sky; the heavens.

The inhabitants of a district.

Place; rank; station.

The extended spatial location of something;

A part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve;

A large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth;

The approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of');

A knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about;

A part of the land distinguished by specific characteristics.

No, location refers to a specific point, while region describes a broader area.

A location is very specific, often pinpointing an exact place or coordinate.

Yes, regions can overlap based on different criteria like climate and administrative boundaries.

Yes, but it's more specific to call an address within the city a location.

Yes, continents are large landmasses and can be considered regions.

Borders themselves are specific and can be considered locations, but the areas they enclose or separate are regions.

Conceptually, yes. Locations are specific points within broader regions.

Yes, a specific location, like a town, can be part of multiple regions, such as a state and a climatic zone.

Distinguishing ensures clarity between a precise point and a larger area, aiding accurate communication and study.

Yes, location can refer to a position in various contexts, like a location in a book or a digital file's location on a computer.

Regions can be determined by natural features, administrative boundaries, cultural distinctions, or economic factors.

While regions are typically larger than cities, in some contexts, especially administrative, a city might be referred to as a region.

Yes, regions can change based on administrative decisions, cultural shifts, or natural occurrences.

A business's specific location can impact its immediate operations, while the broader region can affect things like market trends and larger economic factors.