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region vs country

country vs region

region and country both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
region Yes No No No
country Yes No No No
As nouns, country is a hyponym of region; that is, country is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than region:
  • region: a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth
  • country: a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)
Other hyponyms of region include area, backwater, breadbasket, theater of war, theatre of war, field, field of operations, theater, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations, zone of interior, district, dominion, territorial dominion, territory, demesne, domain, land, northland, southland, field, geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region, biogeographical region, heartland, irredenta, irridenta, antipodes, terra incognita, unknown, unknown region, laboratory, testing ground.
region (noun) country (noun)
a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve a politically organized body of people under a single government
a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about the people who live in a nation or country
the extended spatial location of something the territory occupied by a nation
a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth an area outside of cities and towns
the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of') a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)
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