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)