Regions An area with a characteristic(s) that makes it different from other areas. Characteristics such as landscape, climate, economics, language, religion, governemnt etc could be used to define an area as a region.

Regions
An area with a characteristic(s) that makes it different from other areas. Characteristics such as landscape, climate, economics, language, religion, governemnt etc could be used to define an area as a region.

Physical Regions

Administrative Regions

Urban Regions

Cultural Regions

Socio-Economic Regions

Climate

Geomorphic
(landscape)

Cool Temperate

Mediterranean

Munster Ridge and Valley Provence
(Upland)

Paris Basin
(Lowland)

The Burren
(Rock Type

Local Authorities

EU Administrative Regions

Cork City Council

Cork County Council

Northern & Western Region
(Ireland)

Cork

Dublin

Paris

Sao Paulo

Language

Religion

The Gaeltacht
(Ireland)

Flanders/Wallonia
(Belgium)

Northern Ireland

Islamic World

Core
Developed
(Wealthy)

Periphery
Less Developed
(Poor)

Regions of Industrial Decline

Sambre Meuse Valley
(Belgium)

North Coast of Spain

Drogheda

Dublin
(GDA)

Paris Basin

N & W Region
(Ireland)

Mezzogiorno
(Italy)

Milan
(Industrial)