Difference between Neighborhood and Region

What is the difference between Neighborhood and Region?

Neighborhood as a noun is the quality of being a neighbor, living nearby, next to each-other 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.

Neighborhood

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The quality of being a neighbor, living nearby, next to each-other A nearby area. The inhabitants of a residential area. An approximate amount. The quality of physical proximity. The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will. The neighborhood of a point x is a set containing an open set which contains point x.

Example sentence: I started cutting hair when I was about 16. Everyone in the neighborhood would come by, and I'd come out on the porch and sit and cut. I'd charge $3 a head. Every time I earned some money, I'd give it to my mom.

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.

Example sentence: Zimbabwe has lots of safaris, but very few are African. Most are white-owned. In our region, we have the most safaris and animals. Our people cannot keep suffering.

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

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