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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). [1]

214 relations: Administrative divisions of Ukraine, Amazon basin, Archipelago, Army group, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Atlantic District (LCMS), Atmosphere, Autonomous communities of Spain, Autonomous regions of China, Biogeography, Biome, Biotope, Body politic, Boundary delimitation, Brazil, C-Tran (Washington), Cartography, Catholic Church, Chile, Christendom, Climate, Coal Region, Cognate, Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium, Compass, Continent, Continental fragment, Cornwall, Counties of Sweden, County, Critical geography, Cultural geography, Culture, Delaware River Port Authority, Demography, Development geography, Development regions of Romania, Devon, Diocese, Donald W. Meinig, Dorset, Drainage basin, Dutch language, Earth, Earthquake, Eastern Orthodox Church, Ecclesiastical province, Ecology, Economic geography, Economic regions of Russia, ..., Economics, Ecosystem, Eparchy, Ethnography, European Committee of the Regions, European Union, Euroregion, Exploration, Field marshal, Filipino language, General of the army, General officer, Generalissimo, Geography, Geology, Geopolitics, Government of Singapore, Grand Banks of Newfoundland, Granite School District, Greater London, Gulf War, Health geography, Hispanic, Historical geography, Historical region, Historical regions of Romania, History of geography, Human, Human geography, Hydrosphere, Illinois Country, Integrated geography, James Bay Project, Jurisdiction (area), Krai, Krais of Russia, Kryvbas, Kuznetsk Basin, Lake District, Language geography, Las Vegas–Clark County Library District, Latin, List of Catholic dioceses in the United States, List of Church of England dioceses, List of Latin names of regions, List of regional districts of British Columbia, List of regions and sub-regions of Portugal, List of regions of Hungary, List of regions of Japan, List of regions of Quebec, List of traditional regions of Slovakia, Littoral zone, Local government areas of Scotland (1973–1996), Los Angeles Unified School District, Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, Madrid, Metropolitan Police Service, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, Middle Colonies, Military district, Military organization, Montoire-sur-le-Loir, Mountain range, Muslim world, Nassau County Soil and Water Conservation District, NATO, NATO Joint Military Symbology, Natural region, Natural resource, New France, Oblast, Oblasts of Russia, Ocean, Ohio Country, Parish, Physical geography, Plain, Political geography, Politics, Province, Province of Maryland, Provinces and territories of Canada, Provinces of Bulgaria, Quantitative revolution, Reedy Creek Improvement District, Region of Murcia, Regional corporations and municipalities of Trinidad and Tobago, Regional geography, Regional municipality, Regionalisation, Regionalism, Regions of Brazil, Regions of Chad, Regions of Chile, Regions of Denmark, Regions of England, Regions of Eritrea, Regions of Finland, Regions of France, Regions of Ghana, Regions of Guinea, Regions of Guinea-Bissau, Regions of Guyana, Regions of Italy, Regions of Ivory Coast, Regions of Korea, Regions of Madagascar, Regions of Mali, Regions of Malta, Regions of Namibia, Regions of New Zealand, Regions of Norway, Regions of Peru, Regions of Senegal, Regions of Singapore, Regions of Slovakia, Regions of Tanzania, Regions of the Philippines, Regions of Togo, Regions of Venezuela, Religion and geography, Rumaila oil field, Rupert's Land, Sahara, Scania, Seattle metropolitan area, Social geography, Social issue, Soil type, Somerset, South Wales Coalfield, Sovereign state, Special administrative regions of China, Stake (Latter Day Saints), Submerged continent, Subregion, Supercontinent, Tennessee's 1st congressional district, Territory, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Theater (warfare), Third World, Time geography, Tourism, Tourism Bureau, Tourism geography, Township, Transport geography, Tuscany, U.S. state, United Kingdom, United Nations geoscheme, Urban geography, Västra Götaland County, Ward (LDS Church), Washington's 6th congressional district, Water, West Country, Western Europe, Wine Country (California), World War II, York Rural Sanitary District, Yucatán, Zoogeography. Expand index (164 more) »

Administrative divisions of Ukraine

Ukraine is divided into several levels of territorial entities.

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Amazon basin

The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries.

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Archipelago

An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.

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Army group

An army group is a military organization consisting of several field armies, which is self-sufficient for indefinite periods.

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Association of Southeast Asian Nations

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a regional intergovernmental organization comprising ten Southeast Asian countries that promotes intergovernmental cooperation and facilitates economic, political, security, military, educational, and sociocultural integration amongst its members, other Asian countries, and globally.

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Atlantic District (LCMS)

The Atlantic District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS), and covers eastern New York state: New York City, Long Island, the Hudson Valley, and the Capital District.

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Atmosphere

An atmosphere is a layer or a set of layers of gases surrounding a planet or other material body, that is held in place by the gravity of that body.

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Autonomous communities of Spain

In Spain, an autonomous community (comunidad autónoma, autonomia erkidegoa, comunitat autònoma, comunidade autónoma, comunautat autonòma) is a first-level political and administrative division, created in accordance with the Spanish constitution of 1978, with the aim of guaranteeing limited autonomy of the nationalities and regions that make up Spain.

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Autonomous regions of China

An autonomous region (AR) is a first-level administrative division of China.

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Biogeography

Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time.

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Biome

A biome is a community of plants and animals that have common characteristics for the environment they exist in.

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Biotope

A biotope is an area of uniform environmental conditions providing a living place for a specific assemblage of plants and animals.

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Body politic

The body politic is a medieval metaphor that likens a nation to a corporation which had serious historical repercussions throughout recent history and therefore giving the Crown: "As a legal entity today the Crown as executive is regarded as a corporation sole or aggregate", a corporate entity.

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Boundary delimitation

Boundary delimitation (or simply delimitation) is the drawing of boundaries, particularly of electoral precincts, states, counties or other municipalities.

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Brazil

Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.

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C-Tran (Washington)

The C-Tran (stylized as C-TRAN), more formally the Clark County Public Transit Benefit Area Authority, is a public transit agency serving Clark County, Washington, United States, including the cities of Battle Ground, Camas, Vancouver, Washougal, and Yacolt.

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Cartography

Cartography (from Greek χάρτης chartēs, "papyrus, sheet of paper, map"; and γράφειν graphein, "write") is the study and practice of making maps.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Christendom

Christendom has several meanings.

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Climate

Climate is the statistics of weather over long periods of time.

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Coal Region

The Coal Region is a historically important coal-mining area in Northeastern Pennsylvania in the central Ridge-and-valley Appalachian Mountains, comprising Lackawanna, Luzerne, Columbia, Carbon, Schuylkill, Northumberland, and the extreme northeast corner of Dauphin counties.

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Cognate

In linguistics, cognates are words that have a common etymological origin.

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Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium

Belgium is a federal state comprising three communities, three regions, and four language areas.

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Compass

A compass is an instrument used for navigation and orientation that shows direction relative to the geographic cardinal directions (or points).

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Continent

A continent is one of several very large landmasses of the world.

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Continental fragment

Continental crustal fragments, partially synonymous with microcontinents, are fragments of continents that have been broken off from main continental masses forming distinct islands, often several hundred kilometers from their place of origin.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow) is a county in South West England in the United Kingdom.

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Counties of Sweden

The counties of Sweden (Swedish: Sveriges län) are the top-level geographic subdivisions of Sweden.

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County

A county is a geographical region of a country used for administrative or other purposes,Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations.

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Critical geography

Critical geography is theoretically informed geographical scholarship that seeks for social justice, liberation, and Leftist politics.

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Cultural geography

Cultural geography is a subfield within human geography.

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Culture

Culture is the social behavior and norms found in human societies.

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Delaware River Port Authority

The Delaware River Port Authority (DRPA), officially the "Delaware River Port Authority of Pennsylvania and New Jersey," is a bi-state agency instrumentality created by a Congressionally approved interstate compact between the governments of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

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Demography

Demography (from prefix demo- from Ancient Greek δῆμος dēmos meaning "the people", and -graphy from γράφω graphō, implies "writing, description or measurement") is the statistical study of populations, especially human beings.

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Development geography

Development geography is a branch of geography which refers to the standard of living and its quality of life of its human inhabitants.

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Development regions of Romania

The development regions of Romania (Romanian Regiunile de dezvoltare ale României) refer to the eight regional divisions created in Romania in 1998 in order to better co-ordinate regional development as Romania progressed towards accession to the European Union.

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Devon

Devon, also known as Devonshire, which was formerly its common and official name, is a county of England, reaching from the Bristol Channel in the north to the English Channel in the south.

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Diocese

The word diocese is derived from the Greek term διοίκησις meaning "administration".

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Donald W. Meinig

Donald William Meinig (born November 1, 1924 in Palouse, Washington).

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Dorset

Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is any area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water.

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Dutch language

The Dutch language is a West Germanic language, spoken by around 23 million people as a first language (including the population of the Netherlands where it is the official language, and about sixty percent of Belgium where it is one of the three official languages) and by another 5 million as a second language.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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Earthquake

An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth, resulting from the sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church, also known as the Orthodox Church, or officially as the Orthodox Catholic Church, is the second-largest Christian Church, with over 250 million members.

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Ecclesiastical province

An ecclesiastical province is one of the basic forms of jurisdiction in Christian Churches with traditional hierarchical structure, including Western Christianity and Eastern Christianity.

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Ecology

Ecology (from οἶκος, "house", or "environment"; -λογία, "study of") is the branch of biology which studies the interactions among organisms and their environment.

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Economic geography

Economic geography is the study of the location, distribution and spatial organization of economic activities across the world.

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Economic regions of Russia

Russia is divided into twelve economic regions (экономи́ческие райо́ны, ekonomicheskiye rayony, sing. ekonomichesky rayon)—groups of federal subjects sharing the following characteristics.

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Economics

Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

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Ecosystem

An ecosystem is a community made up of living organisms and nonliving components such as air, water, and mineral soil.

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Eparchy

Eparchy is an anglicized Greek word (ἐπαρχία), authentically Latinized as eparchia, which can be loosely translated as the rule or jurisdiction over something, such as a province, prefecture, or territory.

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Ethnography

Ethnography (from Greek ἔθνος ethnos "folk, people, nation" and γράφω grapho "I write") is the systematic study of people and cultures.

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European Committee of the Regions

The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) is the European Union's (EU) assembly of local and regional representatives that provides sub-national authorities (i.e. regions, counties, provinces, municipalities and cities) with a direct voice within the EU's institutional framework.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Euroregion

In European politics, the term Euroregion usually refers to a transnational co-operation structure between two (or more) contiguous territories located in different European countries.

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Exploration

Exploration is the act of searching for the purpose of discovery of information or resources.

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Field marshal

Field marshal (or field-marshal, abbreviated as FM) is a very senior military rank, ordinarily senior to the general officer ranks.

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Filipino language

Filipino (Wikang Filipino), in this usage, refers to the national language (Wikang pambansa/Pambansang wika) of the Philippines.

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General of the army

General of the Army (GA) is a military rank used (primarily in the United States of America) to denote a senior military leader, usually a general in command of a nation's army.

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General officer

A general officer is an officer of high rank in the army, and in some nations' air forces or marines.

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Generalissimo

Generalissimo is a military rank of the highest degree, superior to field marshal and other five-star ranks in the countries where they are used.

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Geography

Geography (from Greek γεωγραφία, geographia, literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, the features, the inhabitants, and the phenomena of Earth.

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Geology

Geology (from the Ancient Greek γῆ, gē, i.e. "earth" and -λoγία, -logia, i.e. "study of, discourse") is an earth science concerned with the solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time.

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Geopolitics

Geopolitics (from Greek γῆ gê "earth, land" and πολιτική politikḗ "politics") is the study of the effects of geography (human and physical) on politics and international relations.

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Government of Singapore

The Government of Singapore is defined by the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore to mean the Executive branch of government, which is made up of the President and the Cabinet of Singapore.

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Grand Banks of Newfoundland

The Grand Banks of Newfoundland are a group of underwater plateaus south-east of Newfoundland on the North American continental shelf.

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Granite School District

The Granite School District spreads across central Salt Lake County, Utah, serving West Valley City, Millcreek, Taylorsville, South Salt Lake, and Holladay; Kearns and Magna Townships; and parts of West Jordan, Murray and Cottonwood Heights.

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Greater London

Greater London is a region of England which forms the administrative boundaries of London, as well as a county for the purposes of the lieutenancies.

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Gulf War

The Gulf War (2 August 199028 February 1991), codenamed Operation Desert Shield (2 August 199017 January 1991) for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia and Operation Desert Storm (17 January 199128 February 1991) in its combat phase, was a war waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.

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Health geography

Health geography is the application of geographical information, perspectives, and methods to the study of health, disease, and health care.

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Hispanic

The term Hispanic (hispano or hispánico) broadly refers to the people, nations, and cultures that have a historical link to Spain.

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Historical geography

Historical geography is the branch of geography that studies the ways in which geographic phenomena have changed over time.

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Historical region

Historical regions (or historical countries) are geographic areas which at some point in time had a cultural, ethnic, linguistic or political basis, regardless of present-day borders.

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Historical regions of Romania

The historical regions of Romania are located in Central and Southeastern Europe.

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History of geography

The history of geography includes many histories of geography which have differed over time and between different cultural and political groups.

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Human

Humans (taxonomically Homo sapiens) are the only extant members of the subtribe Hominina.

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Human geography

Human geography is the branch of geography that deals with the study of people and their communities, cultures, economies, and interactions with the environment by studying their relations with and across space and place.

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Hydrosphere

The hydrosphere (from Greek ὕδωρ hydōr, "water" and σφαῖρα sphaira, "sphere") is the combined mass of water found on, under, and above the surface of a planet, minor planet or natural satellite.

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Illinois Country

The Illinois Country (Pays des Illinois, lit. "land of the Illinois (plural)", i.e. the Illinois people) — sometimes referred to as Upper Louisiana (la Haute-Louisiane; Alta Luisiana) — was a vast region of New France in what is now the Midwestern United States.

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Integrated geography

Integrated geography (also referred to as integrative geography, environmental geography or human–environment geography) is the branch of geography that describes and explains the spatial aspects of interactions between human individuals or societies and their natural environment.

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James Bay Project

The James Bay Project (in French, projet de la Baie-James) refers to the construction by state-owned utility Hydro-Québec of a series of hydroelectric power stations on the La Grande River in northwestern Quebec, Canada, and the diversion of neighbouring rivers into the La Grande watershed.

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Jurisdiction (area)

A jurisdiction is an area with a set of laws under the control of a system of courts or government entity which are different from neighbouring areas.

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Krai

A krai or kray (край, края́, kraya) was a type of geographical administrative division in the Russian Empire and in the Russian SFSR, and it is one of the types of the federal subjects of modern Russia.

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Krais of Russia

A krai (p) is a type of federal subject of Russia.

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Kryvbas

Kryvbas (full name Kryvorizkyi Iron Ore Basin) is an important economic region in central Ukraine, specializing in iron ore mining and the steel industry.

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Kuznetsk Basin

The Kuznetsk Basin (often abbreviated as Kuzbass or Kuzbas, Russian: Кузнецкий бассейн, Кузбасс) in southwestern Siberia, Russia, is one of the largest coal mining areas in the world, covering an area of around.

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Lake District

The Lake District, also known as the Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region in North West England.

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Language geography

Language geography is the branch of human geography that studies the geographic distribution of language(s) or its constituent elements.

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Las Vegas–Clark County Library District

Las Vegas–Clark County Library District (LVCCLD) is a library district headquartered in the Windmill Library at 7060 W. Windmill in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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List of Catholic dioceses in the United States

This list of the Catholic Dioceses and archdioceses of the United States includes both the Dioceses of the Latin Church, which uses the Roman Rite, and various dioceses, primarily the eparchies (dioceses) of the Eastern Catholic Churches, which use various (Byzantine and other) rites and which are in full communion with the Pope, the Bishop of Rome.

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List of Church of England dioceses

There are 42 Church of England dioceses, each being an administrative territorial unit governed by a bishop.

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List of Latin names of regions

Here is a list of principalities and regions written in the Latin language and English and other names on the right.

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List of regional districts of British Columbia

The Canadian province of British Columbia is partitioned into regional districts, as a means to better enable municipalities and rural areas to work together at a regional level.

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List of regions and sub-regions of Portugal

Here is the list of the municipalities of Portugal under the NUTS II format.

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List of regions of Hungary

There are seven statistical regions of Hungary created in 1999 by the Law 1999/XCII amending Law 1996/XXI.

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List of regions of Japan

The regions of Japan are not official administrative units, but have been traditionally used as the regional division of Japan in a number of contexts.

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List of regions of Quebec

The province of Quebec, Canada, is officially divided into 17 administrative regions.

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List of traditional regions of Slovakia

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Littoral zone

The littoral zone is the part of a sea, lake or river that is close to the shore.

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Local government areas of Scotland (1973–1996)

The local government areas of Scotland were redefined by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 and redefined again by the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994.

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Los Angeles Unified School District

Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in the U.S. state of California and the 2nd largest public school district in the United States.

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Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod

The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS), often referred to simply as the Missouri Synod, is a traditional, confessional Lutheran denomination in the United States.

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Madrid

Madrid is the capital of Spain and the largest municipality in both the Community of Madrid and Spain as a whole.

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Metropolitan Police Service

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), commonly known as the Metropolitan Police and informally as the Met, is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement in Greater London, excluding the "square mile" of the City of London, which is the responsibility of the City of London Police.

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Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago

The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD), originally known as the Sanitary District of Chicago is a special-purpose district, chartered to operate in northern Illinois since 1889.

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Middle Colonies

The Middle Colonies were four of the thirteen colonies in British America, located between the New England Colonies and the Southern Colonies.

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Military district

Military districts (also called military regions) are formations of a state's armed forces (often of the Army) which are responsible for a certain area of territory.

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Military organization

Military organization or military organisation is the structuring of the armed forces of a state so as to offer military capability required by the national defense policy.

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Montoire-sur-le-Loir

Montoire-sur-le-Loir is a commune in the Loir-et-Cher department of central France.

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Mountain range

A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills ranged in a line and connected by high ground.

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Muslim world

The terms Muslim world and Islamic world commonly refer to the unified Islamic community (Ummah), consisting of all those who adhere to the religion of Islam, or to societies where Islam is practiced.

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Nassau County Soil and Water Conservation District

The Nassau County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD), located in Nassau County, Florida is a government entity dedicated to encouraging productive use of land, water and air resources in the county.

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NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord; OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries.

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NATO Joint Military Symbology

NATO Joint Military Symbology is the NATO standard for military map marking symbols.

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Natural region

A natural region is a basic geographic unit.

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Natural resource

Natural resources are resources that exist without actions of humankind.

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New France

New France (Nouvelle-France) was the area colonized by France in North America during a period beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spain in 1763.

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Oblast

An oblast is a type of administrative division of Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Ukraine, and the former Soviet Union and Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

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Oblasts of Russia

An Oblast (область) is a type of federal subject of the Russian Federation.

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Ocean

An ocean (the sea of classical antiquity) is a body of saline water that composes much of a planet's hydrosphere.

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Ohio Country

The Ohio Country (sometimes called the Ohio Territory or Ohio Valley by the French) was a name used in the 18th century for the regions of North America west of the Appalachian Mountains and in the region of the upper Ohio River south of Lake Erie.

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Parish

A parish is a church territorial entity constituting a division within a diocese.

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Physical geography

Physical geography (also known as geosystems or physiography) is one of the two major sub-fields of geography.

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Plain

In geography, a plain is a flat, sweeping landmass that generally does not change much in elevation.

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Political geography

Political geography is concerned with the study of both the spatially uneven outcomes of political processes and the ways in which political processes are themselves affected by spatial structures.

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Politics

Politics (from Politiká, meaning "affairs of the cities") is the process of making decisions that apply to members of a group.

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Province

A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state.

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Province of Maryland

The Province of Maryland was an English and later British colony in North America that existed from 1632 until 1776, when it joined the other twelve of the Thirteen Colonies in rebellion against Great Britain and became the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Provinces and territories of Canada

The provinces and territories of Canada are the sub-national governments within the geographical areas of Canada under the authority of the Canadian Constitution.

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Provinces of Bulgaria

The provinces of Bulgaria (области на България Oblasti na Bǎlgarija) are the first level administrative subdivisions of the country.

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Quantitative revolution

The quantitative revolution (QR)n was a paradigm shift that sought to develop a more rigorous and systematic methodology for the discipline of geography.

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Reedy Creek Improvement District

The Reedy Creek Improvement District (RCID) is the immediate governing jurisdiction for the land of the Walt Disney World Resort.

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Region of Murcia

The Region of Murcia (Región de Murcia, Regió de Múrcia) is an autonomous community of Spain located in the southeast of the state, between Andalusia and Valencian Community, on the Mediterranean coast.

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Regional corporations and municipalities of Trinidad and Tobago

Before 1991 Trinidad was divided into eight counties.

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Regional geography

Regional geography is a major branch of geography.

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Regional municipality

A regional municipality (or region) is a type of Canadian municipal government similar to and at the same municipal government level as a county, although the specific structure and servicing responsibilities may vary from place to place.

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Regionalisation

Regionalization is the tendency to form decentralized regions.

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Regionalism

Regionalism may refer to.

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Regions of Brazil

Brazil is geopolitically divided into five regions (also called macroregions) by the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE); each region is composed of three or more states.

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Regions of Chad

The country of Chad is divided into 23 regions (مناطق manāṭiq, régions).

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Regions of Chile

Chile is divided into 15 regions (in Spanish, regiones; singular región), which are the country's first-level administrative division.

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Regions of Denmark

The Regions of Denmark were created as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform.

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Regions of England

The regions of England, formerly known as the government office regions, are the highest tier of sub-national division in England.

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Regions of Eritrea

The regions of Eritrea are the primary geographical divisions through which Eritrea is administered.

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Regions of Finland

Finland comprises 19 regions called maakunta in Finnish and landskap in Swedish.

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Regions of France

France is divided into 18 administrative regions (région), including 13 metropolitan regions and 5 overseas regions.

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Regions of Ghana

The regions of Ghana constitute the first level of subnational government administration within the Republic of Ghana.

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Regions of Guinea

Guinea is divided into 8 administrative regions which are further subdivided into 34 prefectures.

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Regions of Guinea-Bissau

Guinea-Bissau is divided into 8 regions (singular: região, plural: regiões) and 1 autonomous sector (sector autónomo).

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Regions of Guyana

Guyana is divided into 10 regions: Each region is administered by a Regional Democratic Council (RDC) which is headed by a Chairman.

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Regions of Italy

The regions of Italy (Italian: regioni) are the first-level administrative divisions of Italy, constituting its second NUTS administrative level.

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Regions of Ivory Coast

The regions of Ivory Coast (régions de Côte d'Ivoire) are the second-level subdivisions of Ivory Coast.

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Regions of Korea

Korea has traditionally been divided into a number of unofficial regions that reflect historical, geographical, and dialect boundaries within the peninsula.

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Regions of Madagascar

Madagascar is divided into 22 regions (faritra).

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Regions of Mali

Since 2016, Mali has been divided into ten regions and one capital district.

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Regions of Malta

Malta is subdivided into 5 regions (reġjuni).

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Regions of Namibia

The administrative divisions of Namibia are tabled by Delimitation Commissions and accepted or declined by the National Assembly.

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Regions of New Zealand

New Zealand is divided into sixteen regions for local government purposes.

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Regions of Norway

Norway is commonly divided into five major geographical regions (landsdeler).

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Regions of Peru

The regions (regiones) of Peru are the first-level administrative subdivisions of Peru.

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Regions of Senegal

Senegal is subdivided into 14 regions (French: régions, singularrégion), each of which is administered by a Conseil Régional (pl.: Conseils Régionaux) elected by population weight at the arrondissement level.

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Regions of Singapore

The Regions of Singapore are urban planning subdivisions demarcated by the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore to aid in its planning efforts.

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Regions of Slovakia

Since 1949 (except 1990–1996), Slovakia has been divided into a number of kraje (singular kraj; usually translated as "Regions" with capital R).

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Regions of Tanzania

Tanzania is divided into thirty-one regions or mikoa.

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Regions of the Philippines

In the Philippines, regions (rehiyon), (ISO 3166-2:PH) are administrative divisions that serve primarily to organize the provinces (lalawigan) of the country for administrative convenience.

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Regions of Togo

Togo is divided into five regions (régions, singular région) (capitals in parentheses): The regions are divided into 30 prefectures.

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Regions of Venezuela

Venezuela can be divided into two kind of regions: natural and administrative.

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Religion and geography

Religion and geography is the study of the impact of geography, i.e. place and space, on religious belief.

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Rumaila oil field

The Rumaila oil field is a super-giant oil field located in southern Iraq, approximately from the Kuwaiti border.

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Rupert's Land

Rupert's Land, or Prince Rupert's Land, was a territory in British North America comprising the Hudson Bay drainage basin, a territory in which a commercial monopoly was operated by the Hudson's Bay Company for 200 years from 1670 to 1870.

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Sahara

The Sahara (الصحراء الكبرى,, 'the Great Desert') is the largest hot desert and the third largest desert in the world after Antarctica and the Arctic.

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Scania

Scania, also known as Skåne, is the southernmost province (landskap) of Sweden.

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Seattle metropolitan area

The Seattle metropolitan area is located in the U.S. state of Washington and includes the three most populous counties—King, Snohomish, and Pierce—within the greater Puget Sound region.

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Social geography

Social geography is the branch of human geography that is most closely related to social theory in general and sociology in particular, dealing with the relation of social phenomena and its spatial components.

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Social issue

A social issue is a problem that influences a considerable number of the individuals within a society.

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Soil type

In terms of soil texture, soil type usually refers to the different sizes of mineral particles in a particular sample.

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Somerset

Somerset (or archaically, Somersetshire) is a county in South West England which borders Gloucestershire and Bristol to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east and Devon to the south-west.

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South Wales Coalfield

The South Wales Coalfield (Welsh: Maes glo De Cymru) is a large region of south Wales that is rich in coal deposits, especially the South Wales Valleys.

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Sovereign state

A sovereign state is, in international law, a nonphysical juridical entity that is represented by one centralized government that has sovereignty over a geographic area.

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Special administrative regions of China

The special administrative regions (SAR) are one type of provincial-level administrative divisions of China directly under Central People's Government, which enjoys the highest degree of autonomy, and no or less interference by either Central Government or the Communist Party of China.

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Stake (Latter Day Saints)

A stake is an administrative unit composed of multiple congregations in certain denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Submerged continent

A submerged continent or sunken continent is a continental mass, extensive in size, but mainly undersea.

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Subregion

A subregion is a part of a larger region or continent and is usually based on location.

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Supercontinent

In geology, a supercontinent is the assembly of most or all of Earth's continental blocks or cratons to form a single large landmass.

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Tennessee's 1st congressional district

The Tennessee 1st Congressional District is the congressional district of northeast Tennessee, including all of Carter, Cocke, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi, and Washington counties and parts of Jefferson County and Sevier County.

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Territory

A territory is an administrative division, usually an area that is under the jurisdiction of a state.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), often informally known as the Mormon Church, is a nontrinitarian, Christian restorationist church that is considered by its members to be the restoration of the original church founded by Jesus Christ.

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Theater (warfare)

In warfare, a theater or theatre (see spelling differences) is an area or place in which important military events occur or are progressing.

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Third World

The term "Third World" arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO or the Communist Bloc.

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Time geography

Time geography or time-space geography is an evolving transdisciplinary perspective on spatial and temporal processes and events such as social interaction, ecological interaction, social and environmental change, and biographies of individuals.

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Tourism

Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours.

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Tourism Bureau

The Tourism Bureau, MOTC is the organization under the Ministry of Transportation and Communications of the Republic of China responsible for the administration of domestic and international tourism policy making, execution and development in Taiwan.

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Tourism geography

Tourism geography is the study of travel and tourism, as an industry and as a social and cultural activity.

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Township

Township refers to various kinds of settlements in different countries.

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Transport geography

Transport geography, also transportation geography, is a branch of geography that investigates the movement and connections between people, goods and information on the Earth's surface.

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Tuscany

Tuscany (Toscana) is a region in central Italy with an area of about and a population of about 3.8 million inhabitants (2013).

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U.S. state

A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United Nations geoscheme

The United Nations geoscheme is a system which divides the countries of the world into regional and subregional groups.

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Urban geography

Urban geography is the subdiscipline of geography that derives from a study of cities and urban processes.

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Västra Götaland County

Västra Götaland County (Västra Götalands län) is a county or län on the western coast of Sweden.

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Ward (LDS Church)

In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), a ward is the larger of two types of local congregations, the smaller being a branch.

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Washington's 6th congressional district

Washington's 6th congressional district encompasses the Olympic Peninsula, most of the Kitsap Peninsula, and most of the city of Tacoma.

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Water

Water is a transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance that is the main constituent of Earth's streams, lakes, and oceans, and the fluids of most living organisms.

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West Country

The West Country is a loosely defined area of south western England.

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Western Europe

Western Europe is the region comprising the western part of Europe.

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Wine Country (California)

The Wine Country is an area of Northern California in the United States known worldwide as a premium wine-growing region.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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York Rural Sanitary District

York was a rural sanitary district in Yorkshire, England, until 1894.

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Yucatán

Yucatán, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Yucatán (Estado Libre y Soberano de Yucatán), is one of the 31 states which, with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico.

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Zoogeography

Zoogeography is the branch of the science of biogeography that is concerned with the geographic distribution (present and past) of animal species.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Region

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