Region

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Region

One of the core concepts of geography, it is the outcome of academic or everyday practices of regionalisation. Traditionally, it is understood as a form of spatial delimitation of natural and/or sociocultural units. According to the spatial approach, it is the outcome of an academic procedure of formal classification, referring to spatial as well as social, economic, cultural, or political categories, producing meaningful units for different types of spatial politics or geographical analysis. In an action-centered perspective, the region signifies the result of everyday regionalisations as one of the key forms of everyday geography-making.

^ From: Werlen, B. (2009) Everyday Regionalisations. Entry in: International Encyclopedia for Human Geography. Elsevier.