Region can be used to mean:

1. Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons. The proper techniques of space delimitation covers regionalization.

   the equatorial regions

   the temperate regions

   the polar regions

   the upper regions of the atmosphere

2. An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country or the European Union.
3. The geographically-specific encoding present on many commercially-produced DVDs.
4. (historical) Such a division of the city of Rome and of the territory about Rome, of which the number varied at different times; a district, quarter, or ward.
5. (figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
6. (anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.

   the abdominal regions

7. {obsolete} Place; rank; station; dignity.
8. {obsolete} The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.
9. For the QuickDraw data structure, see QuickDraw.

Regions are conceptual constructs and, thus, may vary among cultures and individuals.

Administrative regions

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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).

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Man killed with family in wreck "loved to fly"
tmcghee@denverpost.com (By Tom McGhee / The Denver Post) Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:30:25 -0600
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Denver fountain will wow the city once again
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State PCs didn't access porn but did waste public time
editor@denverpost.com (By Jessica Fender / The Denver Post) Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:11:45 -0600
State employees didn't use emergency-operations-center computers to buy Rockies World Series tickets or to view pornography, but auditors announced Monday that the equipment has been used to access 341 other websites equally unrelated to work since 2004.
Family killed in plane crash "loving" folks
tmcghee@denverpost.com (By Tom McGhee / The Denver Post) Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:38:53 -0600
Tommy Jacomini loved the freedom he felt behind the controls of his Cessna 182 and enjoyed sharing the four-seater with his wife and two children.
DPS discipline-policy confuses
editor@denverpost.com (By Jeremy P. Meyer / The Denver Post) Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:37:52 -0600
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mriley@denverpost.com (By Michael Riley / The Denver Post) Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:36:22 -0600
Colorado Democrats moved Monday to close wounds left by the presidential primary fight, holding a summit at the Governor's Mansion for a high-profile show of unity.

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