geographic region vs settlement

settlement vs geographic region

geographic region and settlement both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
geographic region	Yes	No	No	No
settlement	Yes	No	No	No

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

geographic region: a demarcated area of the Earth
settlement: an area where a group of families live together

Other hyponyms of geographic region include soil, territory, colony, dependency, semidesert, narco-state, place, property, basin, catchment area, catchment basin, drainage area, 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, 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)	settlement (noun)
a demarcated area of the Earth	termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities
	the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies
	something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
	a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it
	a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government
	a community of people smaller than a town
	an area where a group of families live together

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