Difference between City and Region

What is the difference between City and Region?

City as a noun is a large settlement, bigger than a town. in europe a city is a place that had succeeded in obtaining the right to build a city wall, a belfort, etc., from the nobility. while Region as a noun is 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.

City

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: public; belonging to a city; of a city urban

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A large settlement, bigger than a town. In Europe a city is a place that had succeeded in obtaining the right to build a city wall, a belfort, etc., from the nobility.

Part of speech: proper noun

Definition: San Francisco. Manhattan.

Region

Part of speech: noun

Definition: 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.An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country or the European Union.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.The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.Place; rank; station; dignity.The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.

We hope you now know whether to use City or Region in your sentence.

Also read

Popular Articles