region

noun13

1. •
   a large part of a country or the world, seen as one place because of its land or people
2. •
   A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
3. •
   An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country.
4. •
   An administrative subdivision of the European Union.
5. •
   A subnational region of Chile; equivalent to province.
6. •
   A subprovincial region of Quebec; the primary level subdivision; a prefecture.
7. •
   (historical) Such a division of the city of Rome and of the territory about Rome, of which the number varied at different times; a district, quarter, or ward.
8. •
   Ellipsis of regional municipality, a county-level municipality.
9. •
   Ellipsis of administrative region.
10. •
    An approximate range.

    • The average age of the club's members is in the region of 35.
11. •
    (figurative) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
12. •
    (no longer used) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.
13. •
    (no longer used) Place; rank; station; dignity.

    • he is of too high a region — 1597