Region vs. Country — What's the Difference?

Economic zones.

Political entity.

Administrative division.

Sovereign state.

Geographical area.

National government.

Climatic zones.

Member of international organizations.

Cultural identity.

Legal jurisdiction.

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.

A country is a distinct territorial body or political entity (i.e. a nation).

A large, usually continuous segment of a surface or space

A nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory

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

Districts and small settlements outside large urban areas or the capital

A bioregion.

An area or region with regard to its physical features

A political district or unit, often with its adjacent lands

Short for country music

An area of the body having natural or arbitrarily assigned boundaries

A nation or state.

An area of interest or activity; a sphere

The territory of a nation or state; land.

An approximate degree or amount

The people of a nation or state; populace

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.

The land of a person's birth or citizenship

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

A region, territory, or large tract of land distinguishable by features of topography, biology, or culture

(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 area or expanse outside cities and towns; a rural area

An administrative subdivision of the European Union.

The people of a district who are eligible for jury service.

A subnational region of Chile; equivalent to province.

A jury.

(Ontario) regional municipality

(Informal) Country music.

Ellipsis of administrative region

Of, relating to, or typical of the country

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

Of or relating to country music.

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

(chiefly British) An area of land; a district, region.

(obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.

A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members of the same race, speakers of the same language etc., or associated with a given person, occupation, species etc.

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

The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area; a sovereign state.

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.

A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.

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

Ellipsis of country music

The upper air; the sky; the heavens.

(mining) The rock through which a vein runs.

The inhabitants of a district.

From or in the countryside or connected with it.

Place; rank; station.

Of or connected to country music.

The extended spatial location of something;

Originating in India rather than being imported from Europe or elsewhere.

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

A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region of one's birth, permanent residence, or citizenship.

A large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth;

Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town.

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

The inhabitants or people of a state or a region; the populace; the public. Hence: (a) One's constituents. (b) The whole body of the electors of state; as, to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country.

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

A jury, as representing the citizens of a country.

The rock through which a vein runs.

Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city.

Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, country manners.

Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country.

The territory occupied by a nation;

A politically organized body of people under a single government;

The people who live in a nation or country;

An area outside of cities and towns;

A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography);

Some regions have local administrative powers but lack sovereign authority, which is held by the country.

A region is defined by geographical, administrative, or cultural characteristics within a larger area.

A country is a sovereign state with its own government, defined territory, and international recognition.

Regions can vary greatly in size from parts of a city to areas spanning multiple countries.

A country has full legal authority over its territory, including laws, defense, and foreign relations.

Regions are not typically recognized as sovereign entities internationally; this status is reserved for countries.

Regions often define economic zones that specialize in certain industries, influencing the national economy.

Through processes like devolution or secession, a region may become a country if it gains sovereignty.

Countries are governed by a national government with sovereignty, whereas regions are governed based on local administrative divisions without sovereign power.

The Amazon Rainforest and the Arctic are examples of regions that span across multiple countries.