Notes About Regions

• A place is a  particular portion or point in space
• A location is a position on Earth 
• A site is an actual place that people decided to locate a settlement 
• A situation is a location of a place on Earth relative to other places
• A toponym is a general name for any place or geographical entity 
• come from important people, physical features, culture
• A region is an area of land that has common features 
• Spanning political states
• constrained within one political state 
• Derives its unified character through the cultural landscape 
• Three common types of regions-  One is formal regions which is an area which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics 
• Ex. The Great Plains is a formal region because they all have a flat landscape, same climate and weather 
• There are also regions that are either predominant or universal 
• Ex. Japan is predominant in there language because about 80 to 90% of them speak Japanese
• Ex. America is more universal because there are more people who speak English as there second language