Editing Region (section)

===Continental regions===
Continental regions are usually based on broad experiences in human history and attempt to reduce very large areas to more manageable [[regionalization]] for the purpose of the study. As such they are conceptual constructs, usually lacking distinct boundaries. The oceanic division into maritime regions is used in conjunction with the relationship to the central area of the continent, using directions of the [[compass]].

Some continental regions are defined by the major continental feature of their identity, such as the [[Amazon basin]], or the [[Sahara]], which both occupy a significant percentage of their respective continental land area.

To a large extent, major continental regions are mental constructs created by considering an efficient way to define large areas of the continents. For the most part, the images of the world are derived as much from academic studies, from all types of media, or from personal experience of global [[exploration]]. They are a matter of collective human knowledge of their own planet and are attempts to better understand their environments.