Editing Regionalisation

{{Short description|Tendency to form decentralised regions}}
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'''Regionalisation''' is the tendency to form [[Decentralization|decentralised]] [[region]]s.

Regionalisation or land classification can be observed in various disciplines:

*In [[agriculture]], see [[Agricultural Land Classification]].
*In [[biogeography]], see [[Biogeography#Biogeographic units]].
*In [[ecology]], see [[Ecological land classification]].
*In [[geography]], it has two ways: the process of delineating the Earth, its small areas or other units into regions and a state of such a delineation.
*In [[globalisation]] discourse, it represents a world that becomes less interconnected, with a stronger regional focus.
*In [[politics]], it is the process of dividing a political entity or country into smaller jurisdictions (administrative divisions or subnational units) and transferring power from the central government to the regions; the opposite of unitarisation. See ''[[Regionalism (politics)]]''.
*In [[sport]], it is when a team has multiple "home" venues in different cities. Examples of regionalized teams include a few teams in the defunct [[American Basketball Association]], or the [[Green Bay Packers]] when they played in both Green Bay and Milwaukee from 1933 to 1994.
* In [[linguistics]], it is when a [[prestige dialect|prestige language]] adopts features of a regional language, such as how, in medieval times, [[Church Latin]] developed [[Latin regional pronunciation|regional pronunciation]] differences in the countries it was used, including [[Italy]], [[France]], [[Spain]], [[Portugal]], [[England]], [[Germany]], [[Denmark]], [[Hungary]], and [[Slavic peoples|Slavic]] countries.

==See also==
* [[Regionalism (disambiguation)|Regionalism]]
* [[Regional autonomy]]
* [[Autonomous administrative division]]

==References==
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[[Category:Regions]]
[[Category:Decentralization]]