region vs county

county vs region

region and county both are nouns.

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

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

region: the extended spatial location of something
county: (United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government

Other hyponyms of region include air, atmosphere, biosphere, depths, interplanetary space, interstellar space, heliosphere, intergalactic space, deep space, aerospace, zone, belt, bottom, distance, Eden, heaven, nirvana, paradise, promised land, Shangri-la, extremity, hell, hell on earth, hellhole, inferno, snake pit, the pits, inside, interior, ionosphere, layer, exterior, outside, radius, side, air, vacuity, vacuum, top, zodiac, house, mansion, planetary house, sign, sign of the zodiac, star sign, Papua, Sind, black hole, Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, Kuiper belt, mare, maria.

region (noun)	county (noun)
a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve	(United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government
a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about	(United States) the largest administrative district within a state
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')

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