geographic region vs drainage area

drainage area vs geographic region

geographic region and drainage area both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
geographic region	Yes	No	No	No
drainage area	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, drainage area is a hyponym of geographic region; that is, drainage area is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than geographic region:

geographic region: a demarcated area of the Earth
drainage area: the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet

Other hyponyms of geographic region include soil, territory, colony, dependency, semidesert, narco-state, place, property, basin, catchment area, catchment basin, drainage basin, river basin, watershed, environs, purlieu, geographical zone, zone, environment, environs, surround, surroundings, dust bowl, hemisphere, flashpoint, hot spot, hotspot, trouble spot, panhandle, country, rural area, sphere, sphere of influence, field, settlement, parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract, populated area, urban area, wild, wilderness, killing field, northern Europe, French region, Baltic Republic, Baltic State, Colony, Dar al-Islam, House of Islam, Dar al-harb, House of War.

geographic region (noun)	drainage area (noun)
a demarcated area of the Earth	the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet

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