is a specific kind of: region.

is a broader term that covers: 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 | flashpoint, hot spot, hotspot, trouble spot | 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 ... show more.

instances of which are: 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 | Canara, Kanara | Punjab | 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 ... show more.