mare vs region

mare and region both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mare	Yes	No	No	No
region	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, region is a hypernym of mare; that is, region is a word with a broader meaning than mare:

Other hypernyms of mare include part.

mare (noun)	region (noun)
female equine animal	a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve
a dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon	a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about
	the extended spatial location of something
	a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth
	the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')