region vs zone

region and zone both are nouns.

region is not a verb while zone is a verb.

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

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

region: the extended spatial location of something
zone: an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic

Other hyponyms of region include air, atmosphere, biosphere, depths, interplanetary space, interstellar space, heliosphere, intergalactic space, deep space, aerospace, belt, bottom, county, 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)	zone (noun)
a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve	(anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure
a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about	a locally circumscribed place characterized by some distinctive features
the extended spatial location of something	an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic
a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth	any of the regions of the surface of the Earth loosely divided according to latitude or longitude
the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')

region (verb)	zone (verb)
	separate or apportion into sections
	regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns

Difference between region and zone

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