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Regions: Encyclopedia - Region

Region can be used to mean either: any more or less well-defined geographical area of a country or continent, defined by geography, culture or history in political geography, an administrative subdivision of a country or of the European Union. It is a common English translation of the Russian and Ukrainian administrative subdivision область (oblast) or the Bulgarian counterpart област. It is worth noting that regions are found in the minds of humans and so regions c ...

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Regions: Encyclopedia II - Region - Administrative regions The word "region" is taken from the Latin regio, and a number of countries have borrowed the term as the formal name for a type of subnational entity (eg, the región, used in Chile). In English, the word is also used as the conventional translation for equivalent terms in other languages (e.g., the область (oblast), used in Russia alongside with a broader term регион). Region ...

Buddhist beliefs and practices vary according to region. There are distinctions between and within the Buddhism practised in various regions, including: South Asia India Bangladesh Sri Lanka Nepal Kashmir Central Asia Mongolia Southeast Asia Thailand Malaysia Cambodia Laos Myanmar Indonesia East Asia China < ...

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Regions: Encyclopedia - Bicol Region

Bicol Region or Bicolandia is one of the regions of the Philippines occupying the Bicol Peninsula at the southeastern end of Luzon island. It consists of six provinces, namely, Albay, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, Catanduanes, Masbate, and Sorsogon. The inhabitants speak Bikol, and the commercial/financial centers and transportation hubs are Naga City and Legazpi City, which is also the regional center. Categories: Peninsulas | Regions of the Philippines

Regions: Encyclopedia - Central Region Ghana

The Central Region is one of Ghana's ten administrative regions. It is bordered by the Ashanti and Eastern regions to the north, Western region to the west, Greater Accra region to the east, and to the south by the Atlantic Ocean. Other related archivesAshanti, Atlantic Ocean, Eastern, Ghana, Greater Accra region, Western region, regions

Regions: Encyclopedia - Chubu region

Chūbu (中部地方 Chūbu-chihō) is the central region of Honshu, Japan's main island. The Chubu, or central, region encompasses nine prefectures in the midland of Japan, west of the Kanto region: Aichi, Fukui, Gifu, Ishikawa, Nagano, Niigata, Shizuoka, Toyama, and Yamanashi. The region is the widest part of Honshu and is characterized by high, rugged mountains. The Japanese Alps divide the country into the sunnier Pacific side, known as the front of Japan, or Omote-Nihon, and the colder Sea of Japan side, or < ...

Regions: Encyclopedia - Cultural region

Cultural region is a term used mainly in the study of geography. Distinct cultures often do not limit their geographic coverage inside the borders of a nation state, or to smaller subdivisions of a state. To 'map' a culture, we often have to identify an actual 'cultural region', and when we do this we find that it bears little relationship to the legal borders drawn up by custom, treaties, charters or wars. There are different kinds of cultural regions that can be delineated. A map of culture that maps 'religion & folklore' may have slightly different shape to one whi ...

Regions: Encyclopedia - Wu region

Wu (吳) is a region in the Jiang Nan area (the south of Yangtze River), surrounding Suzhou, in Jiangsu province of China. It is also the abbreviation of several kingdoms or states based in Wu. The largest city in the Wu region today is Shanghai. The first Wu state was established in late Zhou Dynasty. Once considered as a barbarian state, it emerged to be a power overload at the end of Spring and Autumn Period. The most influential Wu state was the Kingdom of Wu during the period of Three Kingdoms. The city of Suzhou (also called Wu) ha ...

Regions: Encyclopedia - D region

The D region is the portion of the ionosphere that exists approximately 50 to 95 km above the surface of the Earth. Note: Attenuation of radio waves, caused by ionospheric free-electron density generated by solar radiation, is pronounced during daylight hours. Because solar radiation is not present at night, ionization ceases, and hence attenuation of radio waves ceases. Source: f ...

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Regions: Encyclopedia - Chugoku region

The Chūgoku region (中国地方 Chūgoku-chihō) is the westernmost region of Honshu, the largest island of Japan. Chugoku region - History. The name literally means "Middle Country", a relic of a historical division of Japan into "Near Countries" (近国 Kingoku, but in modern parlance Kinki), "Middle Countries" and "Far Countries" (遠国 Ongoku), based on distance from the capital Nara or Kyoto. Strictly speaking, today's Chūgoku covers only the Middle Countries to the west of Kyo ...

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Regions: Encyclopedia - Amhara Region

Amhara (አማራ) is one of the nine ethnic divisions (kililoch) of Ethiopia, containing the homeland of the Amhara people. Previously known as Region 3, its capital is Bahir Dar. Covering 156,960 km2 in the northwest of the country, its population (as of 1999) is 15,850,000. During Ethiopia's Imperial era, Amhara was a province ruled by a native Ras or Negus. Other related archivesAmhara people, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, Negus, Ras, ethnic divisions

Regions: Encyclopedia - Belt regions of Canada

In Canada, belt regions are defined as an economic, linguistic, cultural or political area of similarity. The belt term is a metaphor for the belt worn about the waist. The term banana belt is used humorously for a region with a relatively mild climate, as in Windsor, Ontario, Victoria, British Columbia and Saltspring Island all claiming to be the banana belt of Canada, or Whitehorse, Yukon being in the Yukon's banana belt. Belt regions of Canada - List of Regions. Bilingual belt, a reg ...

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Belt regions of Canada - List of Regions

Regions: Encyclopedia - Urban and regional planning

Urban and regional planning is generally accepted as an academic discipline centred upon studies of urbanism in geography. The regional component is the study of how cities that co-exist in the same regional area interact with one another, such as economic co-operation, civic ties and travel to work arrangements. Other related archivesgeography, urbanism

Regions: Encyclopedia - Baltic region

The Baltic region (sometimes briefly The Baltics) is an ambiguous term used to denominate an arbitrary region connected to the Baltic Sea (also called The Baltics). The term Balticum has a more precise meaning but is not as common in English. Baltic region - Etymology. Baltic comes from an Indo-European root balt- meaning white. Thus Baltic Sea means White Sea. The same root begins the word Belarus, also known as White RussiaIncluding:

Regions: Encyclopedia - Cordillera Administrative Region

– Density – Provinces – Cities – Municipalities – Barangays – Cong. districts The Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) of the Philippines consists of the provinces of Abra, Benguet, Ifugao, Kalinga, Mountain Province and Apayao. Baguio City is the regional center. The Cordillera region encompasses most of the areas within the Cordillera Central mountain range of Luzon, the largest range in the country. This region is home to numerous indigeno ...

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Regions: Encyclopedia - Western Region Ghana

The Western Region of Ghana includes the large cities of Sekondi and Takoradi on the coast, coastal Axim and a hilly inland area including Elubo, that reaches from the Côte d'Ivoire border in the west, to the Central Region in the east. It includes Ghana's southernmost location, Cape Three Points. The region has the highest rainfall in Ghana, lush green hills and fertile soils. There are numerous small and large-scale gold mines. The culture is dominated by the Nzema, Wassa, Sefwi, Ahanta branches of the Akan culture, a ...

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