Editing Region (section)

===Administrative regions===<!-- This section is linked from [[Montoire-sur-le-Loir]] -->
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The word "region" is taken from the [[Latin]] ''regio'' (derived from ''regere'', 'to rule'), and a number of countries have borrowed the term as the formal name for a type of subnational entity (e.g., the {{Lang|es|[[Regions of Chile|región]]}}, used in [[Chile]]). In English, the word is also used as the conventional translation for equivalent terms in other languages (e.g., the [[Oblasts of Russia|''область'']] (''[[oblast]]''), used in Russia alongside a broader term ''регион'').

The following countries use the term "region" (or its [[cognate]]) as the name of a type of subnational administrative unit:
*[[Regions of Belgium|Belgium]] (in French, {{lang|fr|région}}; in German, {{Lang|de|Region}}; the [[Dutch language|Dutch]] term {{Lang|nl|gewest}} is often mistakenly translated as "regio")
*[[Regions of Chile|Chile]] ({{lang|es|región}})
*[[Regions of Côte d'Ivoire|Côte d'Ivoire]] ({{lang|fr|région}})
*[[Regions of Denmark|Denmark]] (effective from 2007)
*[[Regions of Eritrea|Eritrea]]
*[[Regions of France|France]] ({{lang|fr|région}})
*[[Regions of Ghana|Ghana]]
*[[Regions of Guinea|Guinea]] (''région'')
*[[Regions of Guinea-Bissau|Guinea-Bissau]] (''região'')
*[[Regions of Guyana|Guyana]]
*[[Regions of Hungary|Hungary]] (''régió'')
*[[Regions of Italy|Italy]] (''regione'')
*[[Regions of Madagascar|Madagascar]] (''région'')
*[[Regions of Mali|Mali]] (''région'')
*[[Regions of Malta|Malta]] (''reġjun'')
*[[Regions of Namibia|Namibia]]
*[[Regions of New Zealand|New Zealand]]
*[[Regions of Peru|Peru]] ({{lang|es|región}})
*[[List of regions and sub-regions of Portugal|Portugal]] (''região'')
*[[Regions of the Philippines|Philippines]] ({{Lang|fil|rehiyon}})
*[[Regions of Senegal|Senegal]] ({{lang|fr|région}})
*[[Regions of Tanzania|Tanzania]]
*[[Regions of Thailand|Thailand]]
*[[Regions of Togo|Togo]] ({{lang|fr|région}})
*[[Regional Corporations and Municipalities of Trinidad and Tobago|Trinidad and Tobago]] (''Regional Corporation'')
The Canadian [[Provinces and territories of Canada|province]] of [[List of Quebec regions|Québec]] also uses the "administrative region" (''région administrative'').

[[Regions of England]] (not the United Kingdom as a whole) used to be administrative units until 2011. Since then they're only used for statistical purposes.<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/geography/ukgeographies/administrativegeography/england#regions
|title=England
|website=Office for National Statistics
|access-date=2025-02-26
}}</ref>

Scotland had [[Local government areas of Scotland 1973 to 1996|local government regions]] from 1975 to 1996.

In Spain the official name of the [[autonomous community]] of [[Region of Murcia|Murcia]] is ''Región de Murcia''. Also, some single-province autonomous communities such as [[Madrid]] use the term ''región'' interchangeably with ''comunidad autónoma''.

Two [[Län of Sweden|län]] (counties) in Sweden are officially called 'regions': [[Skåne]] and [[Västra Götaland]], and there is currently a controversial proposal to divide the rest of Sweden into large [[Regions of Sweden|regions]], replacing the current counties.

The government of the [[Regions of the Philippines|Philippines]] uses the term "region" (in [[Filipino language|Filipino]], {{Lang|fil|rehiyon}}) when it is necessary to group provinces, the primary administrative subdivision of the country. This is also the case in [[Brazil]], which groups its primary administrative divisions (''estados''; "states") into ''grandes regiões'' ([[Regions of Brazil|greater regions]]) for statistical purposes, while Russia uses ''экономические районы'' ([[Economic regions of Russia|economic regions]]) in a similar way, as does [[Development regions of Romania|Romania]] and [[Administrative regions of Venezuela|Venezuela]].

The [[government of Singapore]] makes use of the term "[[Regions of Singapore|region]]" for its own administrative purposes.

The following countries use an administrative subdivision conventionally referred to as a region in English:
*[[Oblasts of Bulgaria|Bulgaria]], which uses the ''област'' (''oblast'')
*[[Administrative regions of Greece|Greece]], which uses the ''Περιφέρεια'' (''periferia'')
*[[Oblasts of Russia|Russia]], which uses the ''область'' (''oblast'''), and for some regions the [[Krais of Russia|''край'']] (''[[krai]]'')
*[[Subdivisions of Ukraine|Ukraine]], which uses the ''область'' (''oblast''')
*[[Regions of Slovakia|Slovakia]] (''kraj'')

China has five 自治区 (''zìzhìqū'') and two 特別行政區 (or 特别行政区; ''tèbiéxíngzhèngqū''), which are translated as "[[autonomous region of China|autonomous region]]" and "[[Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China|special administrative region]]", respectively.

====Local administrative regions====
There are many relatively small regions based on local government agencies such as districts, agencies, or regions. In general, they are all regions in the general sense of being bounded spatial units.  Examples include electoral districts such as [[Washington's 6th congressional district]] and [[Tennessee's 1st congressional district]]; school districts such as [[Granite School District]] and [[Los Angeles Unified School District]]; economic districts such as the [[Reedy Creek Improvement District]]; metropolitan areas such as the [[Seattle metropolitan area]], and metropolitan districts such as the [[Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago]], the [[Las Vegas-Clark County Library District]], the [[Metropolitan Police Service]] of [[Greater London]], as well as other local districts like the [[York Rural Sanitary District]], the [[Delaware River Port Authority]], the [[Nassau County Soil and Water Conservation District]], and [[C-TRAN (Washington)|C-TRAN]].