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region

noun
  1. a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve
    “in the abdominal region”
    area
  2. a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about
    realm
  3. the extended spatial location of something
    “the farming regions of France”
    part
  4. a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth
    “penguins inhabit the polar regions”
  5. the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')
    “it was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job”
    neighborhood