Réunion

From French Réunion. Doublet of reunion.

administrative region
administrative region

An island, overseas department, and administrative region of France, located in the Indian Ocean to the west of Mauritius and to the east of Madagascar.

La Réunion

island in the Indian Ocean to the west of Mauritius and to the east of Madagascar


Martinique

Named by Christopher Columbus after Saint Martin of Tours. The name is sometimes suggested to be a modification of a native Ta-Arawakan (Taino or Kalinago) name Madinina (“island of flowers”) or Matinino (“island of women”).

Department of Martinique
Department of Martinique#English

An island, overseas department, and administrative region of France, in the Caribbean. Official name: Department of Martinique.

Christopher Columbus
Martin of Tours
Martinique

Matinik

Island and, overseas department and region of France


Guadeloupe

/ˌɡwɑːdəˈluːp/

From French Guadeloupe, from Spanish Santa María de Guadalupe (The Virgin Mary named after the Spanish town of Guadalupe in Extremadura). Doublet of Guadalupe.

gloss

An archipelago, overseas department, and administrative region of France, including the island of Guadeloupe.

Gwadloup

overseas department and region of France


Moldova

Unclear; see Romanian Moldova for theories.

Moldava (alternative)
Moldavia (alternative)
Moldovia (alternative)

A region in eastern Romania adjacent to the country of Moldova, once part of the principality of Moldova.


French Guiana

Department of French Guiana
Department of French Guiana#English

An overseas department and administrative region of France in South America. Official name: Department of French Guiana.


Mayotte

From French Mayotte, from Arabic مَيِّت (mayyit, “dead”).

At least several hundred people are feared to have been killed after the worst cyclone in almost a century ripped through the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte on Saturday, uprooting trees, tearing houses apart and pounding the impoverished archipelago’s already weak infrastructure.

2024 December 15, Sam Jones, “Hundreds feared dead as Cyclone Chido devastates French island of Mayotte”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

territorial collectivity
territorial collectivity

An archipelago, overseas department, and administrative region of France, formerly an overseas territorial collectivity, located between Africa's mainland and Madagascar.


Montreal

/ˌmɔ̃ɹeɪˈæl/

From French Montréal; from Mont Royal (“Mount Royal”) (mont + royal), after the nearby hill by Jacques Cartier. It is uncertain how Royal became -real. A common explanation is that real is the Middle French form of Royal, but Cartier himself recorded le mont Royal when he named it. It may have perhaps been from the Italian G.B. Rasmusio's 1556 map translating the name to Italian Monte Real.

A place in Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Ottawa and Saint-Lawrence Rivers

An administrative region of Quebec, Canada, containing the island.


Amazonas

Borrowed from Portuguese Amazonas and Spanish Amazonas, related to English Amazon.


Flanders

en-prop

Flanders (countable and uncountable, plural Flanderses)

From Middle English Flaunders, Flaundress, flawndirs, from Old French Flandres, from Middle Dutch Vlâendren pl, from Vlander, from Old Frisian, from Proto-Germanic *flaumdrą (“waterlogged land”), from *flaumaz (“flowing, current (water)”) (compare Old High German weraltfloum (“transitoriness of life”), Old Norse flaumr (“eddy”)), from Proto-Indo-European *plow-m- (“flow”) (compare Ancient Greek πλῠ́μα (plŭ́ma, “dishwater, washing water”)). More at flow. "Waterlogged" refers to the mudflats and salt marshes common to coastal Flanders.

Ֆլանդրիա

former province and region of northern France

But Wallonian legislators are blocking the changes, fearing that their power is eroding, that the Flemish are doing some legal ethnic cleansing and that a divided Belgium will end the subsidies that flow south from richer Flanders.

2008 May 14, Steven Erlanger, “Seams of Belgium’s Quilt Threaten to Burst”, in The New York Times:

A historical region and modern administrative region in the north of Belgium, consisting of the Dutch-speaking area of Belgium.

فْلَانْدِر

community and region in the north of federal Belgium


Attica

Alternative form: Attika

A periphery where Athens, the capital of Greece, is located.


Tuscany

Late 14c., from Middle English Tuscan, Tuscane, from Old French Toscane or Italian Toscana, from Late Latin Tuscānus (“belonging to the Tusci”), a people of ancient Italy, from Tuscus, earlier *Truscus, shortened form of Etruscus (“Etruscan”).

der

An administrative region of Italy, located north of Lazio and south of Emilia-Romagna.


Lombardy

From Latin Langobardia, named after Langobards, a Germanic tribe that invaded the region along with much of northern Apennine Peninsula in 6th century.

An administrative region in northern Italy, where its capital and the largest city Milan is founded in the Po Valley.


Brittany

Inherited from Middle English Bretany, Brytany, itself borrowed from Medieval Latin Britannia, applied to Brittany from at least the 6th century, and reinforced by Middle French Bretagne. See Britannia for more. Doublet of Britain and Britannia.

Britney (alternative)
Brittney (alternative)
Britanny (alternative obsolete)

An administrative region of northwest France, including most of the historic region of Brittany.


Crete

One of the thirteen regions (peripheries) of Greece, consisting of Chania, Iraklion, Lasithi and Rethymno.


Liguria

/lɪˈɡjʊəɹiə/

From Occitan Ligúria, from Latin Liguria, from Ancient Greek Λίγυς (Lígus).

An administrative region of northwest Italy.


Normandy

From Middle English Normandie, Normandye, from Old English Normandiġ, from Old French Normendie, from normant + -ie. Compare Old Norse Norðmanndi (“Normandy”). Normant refers to the Germanic words for 'north' and 'man', as the original Normans were of Scandinavian origin. More at Norman.

An administrative region, historical province, and medieval kingdom in northwest France, on the English Channel. The modern region was created in 2016 with the merger of Upper Normandy and Lower Normandy.


Piedmont

Derived from Italian Piemonte (“mountain foot”), from Medieval Latin Pedemontium, Pedemontis, from Latin ad pedem montium.

der+

An administrative region in the north of Italy.


Sardinia

Nora, Italy
Sea People
Sherden
en:Sardinia

Borrowing from Latin Sardinia and Ancient Greek Σαρδώ (Sardṓ), which in turn derive from a pre-Roman substrate language, *sard, *shard. It is connected by some scholars to the name of the Sherden or Shardana, an ethnic group amongst the Sea Peoples. A Phoenician inscription found in Nora and dated to the 9th century B.C.E. identifies the island as Shardan.

An island and autonomous region of Italy, in the Mediterranean Sea.


Sicily

From Middle English Sicilie, Sicilye, from Old English Sicilia, from Latin Sicilia, from Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía), from Σίκελος (Síkelos, “Sicel”). Doublet of Sicilia.

The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily.


Wellington

en-prop

Wellington (countable and uncountable, plural Wellingtons)

Wellingtons (plural)
wellington (alternative)

From earlier Weolingtun, from:
# For the place in Shropshire, England: Partly uncertain. The second element from Old English tūn (“estate”), while the first element could come either from *wœling (“ridge, bank”), or else from *wēoling (“device, artefact”).
# For the place in Somerset, England: Partly obscure. The last element from Old English tūn (“estate”), while the first element could come from either the personal name *Wēola + ing, or else *wēoling (“trap”).
# Many places with this name are named after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British soldier and statesman.

A region in the south of the North Island, New Zealand, which includes the capital; in full, Wellington Region.


Abruzzo

An administrative region in central Italy.


Valle d'Aosta

From Italian Valle d'Aosta (literally “Aosta Valley”).

bor

Synonym of Aosta Valley: An autonomous region of northwestern Italy, with a significant fraction of the population speaking Franco-Provençal.

ヴァッレ・ダオスタ州

ヴァッレ・ダオスタしゅう


Apulia

A peninsula and administrative region in southern Italy.


Basilicata

An administrative region of southern Italy.


Calabria

/kəˈlæbɹiːə/

A peninsula and administrative region of southern Italy.


Campania

From Italian Campania, borrowed from Latin Campānia. Doublet of Champagne.


Emilia-Romagna

/ɪˈmiːljə ɹəʊˈmɑːnjə/

Borrowed from Italian Emilia-Romagna, from the former regions Emilia and Romagna.

An administrative region of northern Italy. Capital: Bologna.


Friuli-Venezia Giulia

แคว้นปกครองตนเองฟรียูลี-เวเน็ตเซียจูเลีย


Latium

Borrowed from Latin Latium. Doublet of Lazio.

(archaic or rare) Lazio: A modern administrative region of central Italy.


Umbria

Via Italian, from Umbri, ancient Italic tribe inhabiting the region.


Veneto

An administrative region of northern Italy, roughly corresponding to the ancient Venetia


Peloponnese

From Ancient Greek Πελοπόννησος (Pelopónnēsos) directly and via Latin Peloponnesus, from Πέλοψ (Pélops, “Pelops”) + νῆσος (nêsos, “island”).

der

Πελοπόννησος

A peninsula in Greece, separated from mainland Europe by the Gulf of Corinth and connected to it by the Isthmus of Corinth.

A periphery of Greece containing Achaea, Arcadia, Argolis, Corinthia, Elis, Laconia, and Messenia.


Thessaly

From Ancient Greek Θεσσαλία (Thessalía).

A historical region and administrative region in north-central Greece; one of its 13 peripheries. It contains the prefectures of Karditsa, Larissa, Magnesia and Trikala.


Epirus

From Latin Ēpīrus, from Ancient Greek Ἤπειρος (Ḗpeiros, “mainland”).

伊庇魯斯大區 /伊庇鲁斯大区

Yībìlǔsī Dàqū

伊庇鲁斯大区

Yībìlǔsī Dàqū

A geographic region and administrative region in northwest Greece, one of the thirteen peripheries of modern Greece.


Northern State

A region in northern Israel containing Galilee, and Tiberias.


Wallonia

A federal region of southern Belgium where French and German are the official languages, and where Lorrain, Luxembourgish, Picard, Franconian and Walloon languages are also spoken.


Sofia

From Malagasy Sofia of uncertain origin. The region is named for the river.

A region of Madagascar around the river.


Ionian Islands

A group of islands in the Ionian Sea – one of the 13 peripheries of Greece. The main islands are Cephalonia, Corfu, Ithaca, Kythira, Lefkada, Paxoi and Zante.


Åland

A region of Finland, consisting of the Aland archipelago.


Mary

A region in southeastern Turkmenistan around the city.


Lazio

Borrowed from Italian Lazio. Doublet of Latium.

An administrative region of Italy, situated in the central peninsular section of the country with Rome as its capital. It corresponds to ancient Latium.


Great Plains

The relatively flat region of United States and Canada consisting of grasslands east of the Rocky Mountains and west of the Mississippi, from Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba in the north, to Texas in the south.


Nubia

The origin of this word is contested. At root it is probably a geographical rather than an ethnic designation. (See Nubians § Etymology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia). The related term Noba was used (with some uncertainty even among the writers as to its meaning) both for a people already living in the area and for those who conquered it in the 4th century CE.

pedia

The region of the upper Nile valley now part of Sudan and far-southern Egypt.


Auckland

Translingual: Aucklandia

Auckland
Auckland Castle
Auckland Region
Bishop Auckland
William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland

After William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland, patron of the founder of the city, after Bishop Auckland, formerly North Auckland in the UK, the site of Auckland Castle, from Ackland, possibly from Old Norse alka (“auk”) or from Middle English ak (“oak”) + land; similar, if not the same, to Oakland. In view of an earlier form, Alclit, this may represent an adaptation of a Cumbric [Term?] form, equivalent to Proto-Brythonic *alo- (“rock”) + Proto-Brythonic *clọ:tā, a river name.

A region of New Zealand which includes the city, situated between the Northland region to the north and the Waikato region to the south.


Fife

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic Fìobha, said to date back to the eponym Fib, one of the seven sons of the legendary Pictish king Cruithne. Possibly related to the Uip attested in the Pictish kings lists, in turn possibly related to the Latin Vepogenus, in which the first element is the Proto-Brythonic predecessor of Welsh gwep (“face”).

Ross: Will you to Scone?
Macduff: No, cousin, I'll to Fife.

c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], line 993:

A traditional county of Scotland succeeded by Fife Region in 1975, situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with landward boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire.


South

en-proper noun

South (countable and uncountable, plural Souths)

English surname, from the adjective south. Compare Southern.

Many sincere white people in the South privately oppose segregation and discrimination, but they are apprehensive lest they be publicly condemned.

1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., “Transformed Nonconformist”, in Strength to Love, New York: Pocket Books, published 1964, →OCLC, page 13:

Just when the blacks had had their hopes for equality and justice raised, after centuries of misery and despair, they awoke one morning to discover that their future was in the hands of a President born in the South.

1971, Lyndon B. Johnson, “"I feel like I have already been here a year"”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 18:

Of course, living in the South was never an option—the main problem being they have too much respect for authority; they're soldier-sniffers and cop lovers. I don't respect that, and I could never live with it. There's also way too much religion in the South to be consistent with good mental health.

1997, George Carlin, “WELL, YA GOTTA LIVE SOMEPLACE”, in Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 16:

In the discussions we had sitting around church basements, I learned that, despite the obvious differences in our environments, these kids were more like me than I ever could have imagined. They also knew more about what was happening in the civil rights movement in the South. I had only vaguely heard of Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King, but these discussions sparked my interest.

2003, Hillary Rodham Clinton, “University of Life”, in Living History, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 22–23:

Tohti described a situation then current in Yeyiq Yezisi (Yeyike) township which is reminiscent of share-cropping in the post-bellum American south.

[2007, James A. Millward, Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang, London: Hurst & Company, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 365:

I should add a story, you know in the South at that time, Governor Barnett was sort of known as a bit of a dim bulb. And two years before, during the presidential campaign, one of the flashpoints in the debates that fall involved two Nationalist Chinese islands just off the coast of China: Quemoy and Matsu. And right after this argument erupted in the campaign, Ross Barnett was out politicking one day and the reporters asked him, "Governor, what about Quemoy and Matsu?" And he looked around sort of lost and said to one of his aides, "Them those two fellers I put on the Fishing and Game Commission last year?"

2012, 42:09 from the start, in Listening In: JFK's Secret Tapes, Thomas Oliphant (actor), John F. Kennedy Library Foundation:

(geopolitics) The southern part of any region; alternative letter-case form of south.

(US) The south-eastern states of the United States, including many of the same states as formed the Confederacy.

Südstaaten

the southern states of the United States


West Coast

British Columbia Coast
West Coast of the United States
West Coast, New Zealand
West Coast, Tasmania

A region on the western side of the South Island of New Zealand.


Corsica

An island, department, and administrative region of France, in the Mediterranean to the north of Sardinia.


Mogilev

Mahilyow (alternative)
Mahiloŭ (alternative)
Mogilyov (alternative)


Silicone Valley

And so I went to the San Fernando Valley, aka Silicone Valley, on the other side of the Hollywood Hills, to talk with the suits of the adult business.

2003, Gail Dines, Jean M. Humez, Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Text-Reader, SAGE, →ISBN, page 49:

(slang, humorous) San Fernando Valley, in particular in reference to its large porn industry.


Central Greece

A traditional geographic region of Greece.


Bible Belt

the Bible Belt (canonical)
Bible belt (alternative)

First used by American journalist H. L. Mencken, who wrote in the Chicago Daily Tribune in 1924 that "the old game, I suspect, is beginning to play out in the Bible Belt."

(in particular) An area in the southeastern United States where Evangelical Protestantism is a pervasive and dominant part of the culture.


Santiago

/sæntiˈɑːɡəʊ/

Chinese Filipino
Guan Yu
James, brother of Jesus
Jose Rizal
Santiago
Santiago (disambiguation)

From Spanish Santiago, ellision of earlier Sant'Iago and Sant Iago, from Latin Sanctus Iācōbus (“Saint James or holy James”), the latter word deriving from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (ya‘ăqṓḇ, “Jacob”, literally “he will/shall heel”), from עָקֵב (‘āqḗḇ, “heel”) and the Biblical account of the patriarch Jacob's birth in Genesis 25:26. Piecewise doublet of Saint James.
The Guan Yu sense among Chinese Filipinos in the Philippines is due to a syncretic association of the deified Chinese general with St. James, who are both known for their assertiveness and heroism, which non-Chinese and people in the Philippines like Jose Rizal during the 19th century first associated with and/or surmised the Chinese folk deities venerated by Chinese Filipinos on Chinese altars and prints with popular Christian or Muslim figures.

der

A metropolitan region in Chile, surrounding the province.


Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Прованс — Альпы — Лазурный Берег m (Provans — Alʹpy — Lazurnyj Bereg)


Pays de la Loire

An administrative region of France, near Brittany.


Île-de-France

An administrative region in north-central France, including Paris.


West End

A region of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, composed of the cities and boroughs of Notre-Dame-de-Grace, Cote-Saint-Luc, Hampstead, Montreal West


Silicon Alley

An area of Manhattan, New York, which is home to a group of Internet-related companies.


Canterbury

From Middle English Caunterbury, Canterburi, from Old English Cantwara burg.

A region in the South Island, New Zealand.


Silicon Forest

The area of high-tech businesses around Portland, Oregon.


Silicon Glen

The area of high-tech businesses in central Scotland.


Silicon Hills

The area of high-tech businesses around Austin, Texas.


Silicon Prairie

The area of high-tech businesses around Schaumburg, Illinois; Dallas, Texas; or Ames, Iowa.


Seriland

On entering Seriland, as the territory was spontaneously designated by different members of the expedition...

1896, W. J. McGee, Expedition to Papagueria and Seriland, in American Anthropologist, Vol. 9, No. 3

It is especially fortunate that Seriland should have been explored by an ethnologist eminently fitted to describe the physiographic features of that little-known region.

1901, Frank Russell, review of The Seri Indians, in The American Naturalist, Vol. 35, No. 418

Twenty years after the delivery of the Yaqui hands (1922) the senior author, under arrangement with the Museum of the American Indian in New York, carried out his first expedition into the heart of Seriland.

1945, Edward H. Davis & E. Yale Dawson, The Savage Seris of Sonora—II, in The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 60, No. 4

Few captives could survive the journey from the Sonoran settlements to Seriland—one of the world’s most difficult.

1962, Ronald L. Ives, The Legend of the “White Queen” of the Seri, in Western Folklore, Vol. 21, No. 3

An area of Sonora, Mexico traditionally inhabited by the Seri people.


West Bank

→ German: Westbank

desc

→ Thai: เวสต์แบงก์ (wéet-bɛ́ng)

→ Thai: เวสต์แบงก์ (wéet-bɛ́ng)

Calque of Arabic الضِّفَّة الْغَرْبِيَّة (aḍ-ḍiffa(t) al-ḡarbiyya, literally “the west bank”), so called due to its location relative to the Jordan River.

cal

الضِّفَّة الْغَرْبِيَّة

2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
Smaller than Delaware, packed with 2.7 million people, the core of a proposed future Palestinian state, the occupied West Bank is partitioned by the Oslo Accords into zones of Palestinian and Israeli control.

Mr Shapiro also criticised the way Israel governs in the occupied lands, saying “too much Israeli vigilantism in the West Bank goes unchecked,” he said.

2016 February 6, James Zogby, “Israel’s prickliness blocks the long quest for peace”, in The National, archived from the original on 2021-05-22, retrieved 2016-02-08:

A Palestinian territory on the west bank of the Jordan river, claimed by and under the partial administration of State of Palestine, and illegally occupied by Israel.

ヨルダン川西岸地区

ヨルダンがわせいがんちく

വെസ്റ്റ് ബാങ്ക്

vesṟṟŭ bāṅkŭ


Padania

A region in northern Italy, centered on the valley of the river Po.


Moldavia

Coordinate term: Wallachia

Western Moldavia
Western Moldavia#English

Moldavia, Western Moldavia (a region in eastern Romania adjacent to the country of Moldova, once part of the principality of Moldova).


Dixie

First attested in 1859. Unknown, but may come from the Mason-Dixon line, the boundary between the northern states and the southern states, or from the slang term dixie for a Louisiana $10 bill that had the French word dix printed on it.

(informal, US) The southern United States, especially the former Confederate States; the South.


Marlborough

A region, an and former province of the South Island, New Zealand.


black belt

black belts (plural)
Black Belt (alternative)

From black + belt, originally named after the dark soil.

The Black Belt region, also called the Black Prairie, extends 300 miles across central Alabama and northeast Mississippi and into Tennessee. […] The dark soil for which the Black Belt was named was once famous for its richness and the abundant cotton produced in it.

2014, Richard Pillsbury, editor, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, volume 2, University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 157:

The most politically powerful southerners were those who hailed from the black belt region— distinguished by its dark and fertile soil—which contained the bulk of large-scale plantation and hence the highest percentage of slaves.

2018, Seth C. McKee, The Dynamics of Southern Politics: Causes and Consequences, CQ Press, →ISBN, page 9:

(geology) A roughly crescent-shaped geological formation of dark fertile soil in the Southern United States.


Ostrobothnia

From Latin Ostrobothnia, from Swedish Österbotten, from öster (“eastern”) + botten (“bottom, basin”).

A region of Finland, on the east coast of the Gulf of Bothnia.

Pohjanmaa

current region in Finland, historical Swedish and Finnish provinces


Savonia

From New Latin Savonia, a Latinized exonym of Finnish Savo.


Nelson

en-proper noun

Nelson (countable and uncountable, plural Nelsons)

From Middle English Neil + -son and Nell + -son.
* In the United States, also an Anglicisation of North Germanic (Scandinavian) surnames such as Nilsen, Nielsen, and Nilsson, equivalent to "son of Nicholas".

A city and region of New Zealand, named after Horatio Nelson.

Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758-1805)


Midwest

the Midwest (canonical)
midwest (alternative)

contiguous United States
contiguous United States

The area of the contiguous United States contained in the central third of the country, especially the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas, sometimes inclusive of Missouri and Kentucky.

(without 'the') A town in Natrona County, Wyoming, United States.


continental United States

États-Unis continentaux

United States excluding Hawaii and other overseas territories

(US, geography) The portion of the United States which is located on the North American continent; the United States exclusive of Hawaii and other overseas territories.

(US, geography, colloquial) The largest portion of the United States which is not separated by any ocean or non-U.S. land; the United States exclusive of Alaska, Hawaii, and other overseas territories.


Armagnac

A region and former county of the duchy of Gascony in modern-day France.


Demerara

/dɛməˈɹɛəɹə/

/dɛməˈɹɑːɹə/

The placename derives from an Arawakan word. Perhaps Malali ("fast running stream"), which would have originally been the name of a section of rapids, from which the Dutch called the whole river de Malali ("the Malali"), which (with incorporation of the definite article into the name, and alternation of l and r) became Demerara. Alternatively, perhaps Immenary or Dumaruni meaning “river of the letterwood”. The sugar is so-called because it was grown in the region around the river.

A region of Guyana in South America, Essequebo en Demerary (Essequibo and Demerara), formerly a Dutch (later British) colony, located around the lower courses of this river.


Everglades

Beginning this year, federal park officials will restrict airboat use to those who, in 1989, used them regularly in the eastern part of Everglades National Park near Miami. That was the year Congress passed a far-reaching law to protect and expand the park by nearly 109,000 acres, and to help it recover from engineering projects that had left the Everglades starved for water.

2016 June 11, Lizette Alvarez, “In a Corner of the Everglades, a Way of Life Ebbs”, in The New York Times:

Everglades National Park, a national park in south of the Everglades.


Oltenia

A region in southwestern Romania which makes up the western part of Wallachia.


Uusimaa

A region (administrative) of Southern Finland.


Marches

Synonym of Marche: An administrative region in central Italy.


Carolinas

North Carolina and South Carolina, collectively.


Aetolia

Ætolia (alternative dated)
Aitolia (alternative)

A mountainous region of Greece on the north coast of the Gulf of Corinth, forming the eastern part of the modern prefecture of Aetolia-Acarnania.


Olomouc

An administrative region of the Czech Republic; in full, Olomouc Region. Capital: Olomouc.

olomoucký

city in the Czech Republic (used attributively)


Deep South

A group of cultural and geographic subregions in the American South, typically consisting of Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas.

Głębokie Południe

group of subregions in the American South


Otago

A region in the South Island of New Zealand.


Friuli

From Italian Friuli, from Friulian Friûl, from Latin Forum Iūlīi (“forum of Julius”).

Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Friuli-Venezia Giulia

A region in northeastern Italy, part of Friuli-Venezia Giulia.


Tori

A region of Georgia, in the central part of the country, bordered by Imereti and Kartli in the north and Meskheti and Trialeti in the south.


East End

A region of Montreal island, Quebec, Canada.


Saint-Louis

St-Louis (alternative)
St.-Louis (alternative)

Alternative spelling of St. Louis, used by various places in French-speaking countries.


Scottish Borders

A council area of Scotland, one of 32 created in 1996; it was named Borders Region prior to that.


Demir Hisar

A region in southwestern North Macedonia.


Occitania

From New Latin Occitānia, from Occitānus (“Occitan”) (as used in lingua Occitāna (“Occitan language)”) + -ia. By surface analysis, Occitan + -ia.

奧克西塔尼亞 /奥克西塔尼亚

Àokèxītǎníyǎ

An administrative region in southern France, created in 2016 by the merger of Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées; Occitanie.


Gascony

From Old French Gascoigne, from Medieval Latin Gasconia, from Vulgar Latin Wasconia, from Latin Vasconia, from Vascones + -ia, from Ancient Greek Οὐασκώνων (Ouaskṓnōn) attested in Strabo's 1st-century Geographica, Book III, variously derived from αἴξ (aíx, “goat”) (literally “he-goat people”) or a variant of Ausci (perhaps related to Euskara). Cognate with Basque, Gascon, and Vascon. Equivalent to Gascon + -y.
For sound changes: /w/ → /v/ occurred in the change from Latin to Proto-Romance, while /w/ → /g/ (in loan words starting with /w/) common in (non-Iberian) Romance languages, notably French; compare warranty and guarantee, William and Guillaume. By contrast, /v/ developed into /b/ and /β̞/ in Spanish and Gascon (Spanish Vasco, /ˈbasko/), hence the divergence.


Tasman

A region and territorial authority in the north of the South Island, New Zealand; in full, Tasman District.


Zamboanga

From Spanish Zamboanga, from Central Sama Samboangan (“mooring place”) from samboang (“mooring pole” - cognate with Malay sembuang) + place marker suffix -an, as attested in the Velarde Map (1734). A popular folk etymology may also attribute it to either Malay jambangan (“flower garden”) or Tausug jambangan (“flower garden”) from jambang (“flower pot”) + -an (“place marker suffix”), but this name has never been attested in any historical records prior to the 1960s with the place being attested usually instead as "Samboangan".

suffix

Bangsamoro Zamboanga Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Zamboanga BARMM

Zamboanga Peninsula
w:Zamboanga Peninsula

Zamboanga Peninsula (an administrative region of Mindanao, Philippines).


Occitanie

Occitania: an administrative region in southern France.


Upper South

The northern part of the South (Southern United States), typically consisting of North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, and eastern Oklahoma, sometimes also inclusive of southern Missouri, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, eastern/southern/western Maryland, and southern Delaware.


San Diego-Tijuana

An international metropolitan region centered on the cities of San Diego, California and Tijuana, Baja California, and composed of the counties and municipalities of Rosarito Beach, San Diego, Tecate, and Tijuana.


lower 48

Every month, the University of Michigan’s Survey Research Centre conducts a telephone poll of at least 500 households selected to be broadly representative of the Lower 48 states.

2022 April 27, John Kemp, “Column: Global consumers balk at surging prices for durable goods”, in Mark Potter, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-16, Commodities:

District of Columbia
District of Columbia

(US, geography) The contiguous continental states area of the United States, comprising 48 states in number, and the District of Columbia, excluding Alaska and Hawaii.


Valparaíso

Borrowed from Chilean Spanish Valparaíso.


Dakotas

South Dakota and North Dakota, collectively.


Karlovy Vary

A spa city, district, and administrative region located in western Bohemia, Czech Republic; formerly known as Karlsbad.


Guria

A region of Georgia, in the western part of the country, bordered by the eastern end of the Black Sea with Ozurgeti as its regional capital.


Ségou

Loan from French Ségou, which is transcription of Bambara Segu.


Mandalay

Borrowed from Burmese မန္တလေး (manta.le:).


Dumfries and Galloway

A council area of Scotland, one of 32 created in 1996, formerly a region created in 1975 from the counties of Dumfriesshire, Kirkcudbrightshire and Wigtownshire.


Mid-Atlantic

This will feel like a dream compared to the chilly high temperatures forecast from the mid-Atlantic to New England, where you’ll be lucky to see the mercury in the thermometer climb out of the 40’s.

2021 January 16, Derek Van Dam, “Northeast will be wet and chilly while Southern California should sizzle during holiday weekend”, in CNN:

The middle of the East Coast of the United States, typically consisting of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, DC.


Silicon Beach

Any of several coastal towns or cities that host hi-tech industries; examples include Los Angeles and Brighton.


Åland Islands

Åland (alternative)
Aaland Islands (alternative)

A region of Finland. Swedish speaking group of islands between Finland and Sweden.


Kakheti

A region in the eastern part of the country of Georgia. Capital: Telavi.


Issyk Kul

From Kyrgyz Ысык-Көл (Isık-Köl) "hot lake" via Russian Иссык-Ку́ль (Issyk-Kúlʹ).

Issyk-Kul (alternative)
Ysyk Köl (alternative)


Fayum

From Arabic الفَيُّوم (al-Fayyūm), from Coptic ⲫ̀ⲓⲟⲙ (Ph̀iom, “the sea, Fayum”), from Egyptian pꜣ ym (“Lake Moeris”), from pꜣ (“the”) + ym (“lake”).

Fayyum (alternative)
Faiyum (alternative)
Fayoum (alternative)


Puna

Altiplano, a region that covers part of Bolivia, Peru, and the northern end of Argentina and Chile.


Ashanti

Asante (alternative)
Ashantee (alternative)

Ashanti Region, a region in southern Ghana.


Rif

From Arabic الريف, from Berber ⴰⵔⵔⵉⴼ, ⴰⵔⵉⴼ (Arif).

A mountainous region in northern Morocco.


Greater Middle East

Coined or popularized by the administration of United States President George W. Bush.

The Middle East in addition to Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and North Africa.

大中東 /大中东

countries of the Muslim world centred on the Middle East and excluding those in Oceania


Žilina

Žilina Region, one of eight regions in Slovakia.


Waikato

A region in northern New Zealand. Seat: Hamilton.


Imereti

Imeretia (alternative)
Imeriti (alternative)

A region of Georgia, with Kutaisi as its regional capital.


Kvemo Kartli

From Georgian ქვემო ქართლი (kvemo kartli), literally meaning Lower Kartli, i.e. the southern one.

uder

ქვემო ქართლი

A region of Georgia, with Rustavi as its regional capital.


Mtskheta-Mtianeti

From Georgian მცხეთა-მთიანეთი (mcxeta-mtianeti).

მცხეთა-მთიანეთი

A region of Georgia, with Mtskheta as its regional capital.


Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti

From Georgian რაჭა-ლეჩხუმი და ქვემო სვანეთი (rač̣a-lečxumi da kvemo svaneti).

რაჭა-ლეჩხუმი და ქვემო სვანეთი

A region of Georgia, with Ambrolauri as its regional capital.


Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti

From Georgian სამეგრელო-ზემო სვანეთი (samegrelo-zemo svaneti) or Georgian სამეგრელო და ზემო სვანეთი (samegrelo da zemo svaneti).

სამეგრელო-ზემო სვანეთი

სამეგრელო და ზემო სვანეთი

A region of Georgia, with Zugdidi as its regional capital.


Samtskhe-Javakheti

From Georgian სამცხე-ჯავახეთი (samcxe-ǯavaxeti).

bor

სამცხე-ჯავახეთი

A region of Georgia, with Akhaltsikhe as its regional capital; populated mostly by Armenians.


Shida Kartli

From Georgian შიდა ქართლი (šida kartli), meaning Inner Kartli.

A region of Georgia, with Gori as its regional capital.


Rust Belt

(informal) A region straddling the Northeastern and East North Central United States that has undergone economic decline and population loss due to the shrinking of its once powerful industrial sector.


Bay of Plenty

From bay (“embayment”) + plenty (“abundant food”). Coined by James Cook in 1769, from observations of plentiful amounts of food in the villages surrounding the bay.

compound

A region surrounding the bay in North Island, New Zealand.


Calabarzon

Acronym of Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon for the region's five provinces.

acronym

An administrative region of the Philippines, including the provinces of Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Quezon.

Zamboanga Calabarzon Zamboanga Peninsula

Bangsamoro Calabarzon Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Calabarzon BARMM


Saguenay

From Innu shakaikanipeiau, (river which widens to form a lake).

A city, river, and region of Quebec, Canada.


Four Corners

The quadripoint at the borders of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah, and the region surrounding it.


Acarnania

A region in west-central Greece that lies along the Ionian Sea, west of Aetolia.


Southern United States

An expansive region encompassing the southeastern and south-central part of the United States.


Segou

From French Ségou, which is transcription of Bambara Segu.


Strathclyde

An adaptation of Scottish Gaelic Srath Chluaidh, from Cumbric *strat (“river-valley”) + *Clud (“Clyde (river)”).

Subsequent to the re-organisation of Scottish local government in 1973, West Central Scotland effectively became the urbanised industrial heartland of Strathclyde Region which focused upon the area previously known as the Clydeside...

1986, Chiranji Singh Yadav, Urban Planning and Policies, Concept Publishing Company, page 391:

It remains a key part of the busy Strathclyde railway system, with its high-level platforms served by trains to Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and England, and its low-level platforms a key artery at the heart of the busiest commuter network outside London.

2021 September 22, “National Rail Awards 2021: Glasgow Central - Network Rail”, in RAIL, number 940, page 47:

A former local government region in the west of Scotland, created in 1975, abolished in 1996.


Old Northwest

continental United States
continental United States

The area of the continental United States in the former Northwest Territory (the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, plus part of Minnesota).


Roussillon

en-proper noun

Roussillon (countable and uncountable, plural Roussillons)

Borrowed from French Roussillon, from Latin Ruscinō, Ruscinōnem. Compare Catalan Rosselló.

A region of the Occitania region, France, approximately coterminous with Pyrénées-Orientales, that was once a part of Catalonia.


Tayside

Perth and Kinross
Perth and Kinross#English

A former local government region in East Scotland, formed in 1975 from the city of Dundee, Angus, Kinross-shire and Perthshire, and abolished in 1996, being succeeded by Angus, Dundee and Perth and Kinross council areas.


Montérégie

An administrative region in southwestern Quebec.


Outaouais

Borrowed from French Outaouais, from the same origin as English Ottawa.

A region in western Quebec, Canada, bordering the Ottawa river.


O'Higgins

Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins#English

Ellipsis of Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins: a region of Chile.


Tenasserim

Dahnasari (alternative)
Tanacerin (alternative)
Tanasary (alternative)
Tanasery (alternative)
Tannaserim (alternative)
Tarnassari (alternative)
Tenazar (alternative)

/təˈnæsəɹɪm/

An administrative region in southern Burma.


Székely Land

Calque of Hungarian Székelyföld, from székely (“Székely”) + föld (“land”).

Szekely Land (alternative)
Székelyland (alternative)
Szekelyland (alternative)
Székely land (alternative)
Szekely land (alternative)

A historic and ethnographic region in Romania, inhabited mainly by Székelys, a subgroup of Hungarians.

Sikulsko

historic and ethnographic area in Romania


Western Isles

Comhairle nan Eilean Siar
Outer Hebrides

A council area of Scotland, one of 32 created in 1996, the Western Isles Council (officially Scottish Gaelic Comhairle nan Eilean Siar since 1997).


Northland

A region in the far north of the North Island, New Zealand.


Southland

Southland District
Southland Region
Southland, Texas

A region in the far south of the South Island of New Zealand, which includes Fiordland and Stewart Island.

Southland District, a territorial authority which includes the majority of Southland region.


West Island

west+island; From its location.
* (New Zealand): by analogy with the North Island and South Island that make up New Zealand.

Island of Montreal
Island of Montreal#English

A region of Montreal, Quebec, Canada; a region of the Island of Montreal composed of the cities and boroughs on the western portion of the island, and some neighbouring islands of that region; generally lying to the west of Autoroute 13.


Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

An administrative region of France, created in 2016 by the merger of Auvergne and Rhône-Alpes. Seat: Lyon.


Virginias

And now for a moment glance at the future and see what it has for the relationship between Pittsburgh and the Virginias.

1916, William A. MacCorkle, The Historical and Other Relations of Pittsburgh and the Virginias, →ISBN:

Golf came to the Virginias before the dawn of the 20th century.

1999, Robert Armstrong, Golfing the Virginias, →ISBN:

In the third section, I introduce the Cleveland-Marietta-Asheville-Florida Highway Association, a short-lived, but influential group that promoted a similar route through the Virginias and Carolinas.

2014, David M. Cochran Jr., Carl A. Reese, Southeastern Geographer: Spring 2014 Issue, →ISBN, page 7:

Virginia and West Virginia, collectively.


Hauts-de-France

An administrative region of France, created in 2016 by the merger of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy.


Bangsamoro

From Malay bangsa (“nation”) + Moro (“Filipino Muslim”).

Zamboanga Bangsamoro Zamboanga Peninsula

Bangsamoro Bangsamoro Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Bangsamoro BARMM

Meronyms: Basilan, Cotabato City, Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao del Norte, Maguindanao del Sur, Special Geographic Area, Tawi-Tawi — provinces, city, and area of BARMM

An autonomous region in the southern Philippines.


Ogaden

Borrowed from Somali Ogaadeen, from the clan of the same name, a subsection of the Somali Darod, which inhabit part of the region. Documented folk etymologies include Ogad, the name of a founding father, meaning clever or quick-witted, and a combination of the Harari word ūga (“road”) and Aden, a city in Yemen, supposedly connected to Harar by an ancient caravan route passing through the region.


Olomouc Region

Following the detected deficiencies in managing geodata on public transport network in the Olomouc Region, potential solutions of the situation were analysed.

2014, Lenka Zajíčková, “Mobile Application for Acquiring Geodata on Public Transport Network”, in Igor Ivan et al., editors, Geoinformatics for Intelligent Transportation, Cham: Springer International Publishing, →ISBN, page 257:

An administrative region of the Czech Republic. Capital: Olomouc.


flyover country

Coordinate term: flyover state

(US, sometimes derogatory) The parts of the United States between the East and West Coasts.


Mauricie

An administrative region of Quebec, Canada.


Kokang

Borrowed from Burmese ကိုးကန့် (kui:kan.).


Gisborne

Gisborne District
Gisborne District#English

A region, territorial authority, and unitary authority on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand, with its headquarters in the city; in full, Gisborne District.


Hawke's Bay

Battle of Quiberon Bay
Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke
Hawke Bay
Hawke's Bay
James Cook

Named after a large bay, Hawke Bay, which was named after Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke (1705 - 1781). The name was given by explorer James Cook (1728 - 1779).
The town in Newfoundland was named by Cook during his survey of Newfoundland in honor of Hawke's victory at the Battle of Quiberon Bay in 1759.

A large region on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand.


Puno

A province, department, and administrative region in southeastern Peru. Capital: Puno.


Arequipa

A department and region in southern Peru.


Grand Est

Borrowed from French Grand Est (literally “Great East”).

Meronyms: Alsace, Lorraine, Champagne

An administrative region in northeastern France, created in 2016 by the fusion of Alsace, Lorraine and Champagne-Ardenne.


Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

An administrative region in eastern France, created in 2016 by the merger of Burgundy and Franche-Comté.


Rupununi

A region in southwestern Guyana, bordering the Brazilian Amazon.


Magallanes

From Spanish Magallanes, from Portuguese Magalhães.
The places are named after Ferdinand Magellan (Spanish: Fernando de Magallanes)

Several places in the Chile and the Philippines.


Taranaki

A region in western North Island, New Zealand.


Manawatu-Wanganui

A region in southern North Island, New Zealand.


Cordillera

Cordillera Administrative Region
Cordillera Administrative Region

A region of the Philippines. See Cordillera Administrative Region.


Tavastia

Borrowed from Medieval Latin Tavastia, equivalent to Tavast + -ia from Old East Norse Tafæistaland (attested in 11th century runestone Gs 13 as ᛆ ᛏᛆᚠᛋᛏᛆᛚᚭᚿᛏᛁ, transliterated "a tafstalãnti", normalized "a Tafæistalandi" 'in Tavastia'), from Tafæistr (“Tavast”) + land, the former probably being derived from tafʀ (“laggard”) + Æistʀ (“Estonian”).

lang

ᛆ ᛏᛆᚠᛋᛏᛆᛚᚭᚿᛏᛁ

ᛆ ᛏᛆᚠᛋᛏᛆᛚᚭᚿᛏᛁ

Tavastia Proper (a region in Finland; official name: Kanta-Häme).

Päijänne Tavastia
Päijänne Tavastia#English

Päijänne Tavastia (a region in Finland; official name: Päijät-Häme).


Metro Manila

Meronyms: Caloocan, Las Piñas, Makati, Malabon, Mandaluyong, Manila, Marikina, Muntinlupa, Navotas, Parañaque, Pasay, Pasig, Pateros, Quezon City, San Juan, Taguig, Valenzuela — cities and municipality of NCR

A region and metropolitan area in the Philippines. Capital: Manila. Largest city: Quezon City.

Метро Манила

metropolitan area and national capital region of the Philippines

Zamboanga Metro Manila Zamboanga Peninsula

Bangsamoro Metro Manila Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Metro Manila BARMM


Brie

From French Brie, from Gaulish *brigā, from Proto-Celtic *brigā (“hill, fortress”). Doublet of brie.

(historical) A region in northern France.


Davao

Davao Region (a region of Mindanao, Philippines).


Central Luzon

A region of the Philippines. Capital: San Fernando.

Zamboanga Central Luzon Zamboanga Peninsula

Bangsamoro Central Luzon Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Central Luzon BARMM


Northern America

(politics) The parts of the North American continent that lie north of the Rio Grande River.


Utik

The historian Movses Khorenatsi (an Armenian source from the fifth century AD according to some, and the eighth century AD, according to others) indicated that the province of Utik (along with Artsakh with which it was contiguous on the south) was part of the Armenian kingdom of the Ervandunis (or Orontids) between the fourth to second centuries BC.

1994, Levon Chorbajian, Patrick Donabédian, Claude Mutafian, The Caucasian Knot: The History & Geopolitics of Nagorno-Karabagh, Zed Books, page 53:

For the most part, Caucasian Albania (in Armenian, A[ġ]vank—that is Aghvank or Aghouank) only stretched a short way south of the Kura River. If there was a disputed province of ancient Armenia, it was Utik (which contained the town of Partav, at one time Caucasian Albania's capital, and the southern valley of the Kura), and not Artsakh, the more mountainous region corresponding to Karabakh and Shahumianovsk today.

2003 December 16, John Wright, Richard Schofield, Suzanne Goldenberg, Transcaucasian Boundaries, Routledge, page 91:

Khorenatsi indicated that the province of Utik, together with Artsakh adjoining it to the south, formed part of the Armenian kingdom of the Ervandunis (or Orontids) in the fourth to second centuries BC.

2016 May 13, Ohannes Geukjian, Ethnicity, Nationalism and Conflict in the South Caucasus: Nagorno-Karabakh and the Legacy of Soviet Nationalities Policy, Routledge, page 30:

A historical canton of Greater Armenia, mostly part of present-day Azerbaijan.


Aosta Valley

An autonomous region of northwestern Italy, with a significant fraction of the population speaking Franco-Provençal. Capital and largest city: Aosta.


Biobío

Bio-Bío (alternative)
Bío-Bío (alternative)


Centre-Val de Loire

An administrative region in central France, previously named Centre.

Центр — Долина Луары m or f (Centr — Dolina Luary)

Центр — Долина Луари m or f (Centr — Dolyna Luary)


Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Borrowed from French Nouvelle-Aquitaine (literally “New Aquitaine”).

bor+

An administrative region in southwestern France, established in 2016 by the merger of Aquitaine, Limousin, and Poitou-Charentes.


Norðurland eystra

Unadapted borrowing from Icelandic Norðurland eystra.

ubor

Northeastern Region
Northeastern Region#English

administrative region
administrative region

Northeastern Region (an administrative region of Iceland).


Rio Grande Valley

A region located in a floodplain draining into the Rio Grande River near its mouth in South Texas and northern Tamaulipas.


Sughd

From Tajik Суғд (Suġd); see it for more. Related to Sogdiana and Sogdia.


Bicol Region

A region of the Philippines. Capital: Legazpi.

Zamboanga Bicol Region Zamboanga Peninsula

Bangsamoro Bicol Region Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Bicol Region BARMM


Davao Region

A region of the Philippines. Capital: Davao City.

Zamboanga Davao Region Zamboanga Peninsula

Bangsamoro Davao Region Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Davao Region BARMM


Cagayan Valley

A region of the Philippines, composed of the provinces of Batanes, Cagayan, Isabela, Nueva Vizcaya and Quirino. Capital and largest city: Tuguegarao.

Zamboanga Cagayan Valley Zamboanga Peninsula

Bangsamoro Cagayan Valley Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Cagayan Valley BARMM


Caraga

An administrative region of the Philippines, occupying the northeastern section of the island of Mindanao.

Bangsamoro Caraga Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Caraga BARMM


Cordillera Administrative Region

Cordillera (alternative)
C.A.R. (alternative)
CAR (alternative)

/koɾ.d̪ɪlˌjɛː.ɾɐ ʔɐd̪.mɪ.n̪ɪsˌt̪ɾaː.t̪ɪv ˈɾiː.d͡ʒon̪/

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Meronyms: Abra, Apayao, Baguio, Benguet, Ifugao, Kalinga, Mountain Province — city and provinces of CAR

a landlocked administrative region of the Philippines situated within the island of Luzon.

Ilocos Cordillera Administrative Region Ilocos Region

Bicol Cordillera Administrative Region Bicol Region

Zamboanga Cordillera Administrative Region Zamboanga Peninsula

Davao Cordillera Administrative Region Davao Region

Bangsamoro Cordillera Administrative Region Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Cordillera Administrative Region BARMM


Lithium Triangle

A region of Bolivia, Chile and Argentina, in the Atacama Desert, which produces much of the world's lithium supply, and contains most of the world's known lithium reserves.


Madre de Dios

The Department of Madre de Dios, a department and region in south-east Peru.


Junín

A city, district, province, and region in Peru.


Andijan

Andijon (alternative)
Andizhan (alternative)


Bahr el Ghazal

A region of South Sudan, named after the river.


Tigray

A region of Ethiopia; the northernmost region of Ethiopia; in full, Tigray Region.


Los Ríos

A place name, including:
A region in Chile, one of 16.


Guyenne

From French Guyenne, from Old French Guyenne, Guienne, Aguyenne, from Latin Aquītānia. Doublet of Aquitaine.


North End

A number of places in Canada:
A region of Montreal Island, Quebec.


La Brea

From Spanish La Brea, from la (“the”)+brea (“tar, pitch”).
* (Los Angeles): Coined by Gaspar de Portolá in 1769 as Los Volcanes de Brea (The Tar Volcanoes), from the tar geyers found in the tar swamp that now exist as the La Brea Tar Pits park.
* (Trinidad): From the asphalt lake and tar seeps found on the island of Trinidad by Spanish conquistadors.

la Brea (alternative)
laBrea (alternative)
LaBrea (alternative)
Labrea (alternative)
Brea (alternative)

Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago#English

A region of Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago.


Estrie

An administrative region in southern Quebec, Canada, which replaced the Eastern Townships.


Latam

Latam’s growing food crisis

2024 November 11, “Semaphor Flagship: Food, water, and power”, in Semaphor News, retrieved 2024-11-11:


Southwest

From southwest, from south+west.
* (Montreal): Calque of French Le Sud-Ouest
* (United States of America): Ellipsis of American Southwest or Desert Southwest.

ellipsis of

A borough and region of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.


Upper Midwest

The states in the northern part of the Midwestern United States, mainly used to describe the area that includes Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Iowa, as well as parts of Eastern North and South Dakota.


Inland Northwest

A region of the American Northwest centered on the Greater Spokane, Washington area, encompassing all of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho, sometimes including Northeastern Oregon and Western Montana.


New Aquitaine

Alternative form of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, an administrative region in southwestern France, established in 2016 by the merger of Aquitaine, Limousin, and Poitou-Charentes.


border state

In the American Civil War, one of the slave states that did not join the Confederacy.


Ilocos

From Spanish Ilocos, the plural of iloco + -s, where the root is from Ilocano i- (place of origin prefix) + either lukong (“hollow; concave”) or luek/luok (“cove; bay”) + Spanish -o.

Ilocos Region (a region of Luzon, Philippines).

Bangsamoro Ilocos Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Ilocos BARMM


North Karelia

A county and region in northern Karelia, in southeast Finland. (Since 2022, the English term officially prescribed as the name for the Finnish administrative unit long known as a “region” was changed to be called a “county”, although reference to counties as regions is still common. See Counties of Finland.)


Gorno-Badakhshan

/ˌɡɔɹnoʊˈbɑdɑkʃɑn/

From Russian Горно-Бадахша́н (Gorno-Badaxšán, literally “Mountainous Badakhshan”).https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/gbao.htm

bor

Горно-Бадахша́н

Tajikistan has launched an "anti-terror operation" in its restive Gorno-Badakhshan province, which borders Afghanistan and China, Russia's RIA news agency cited the Tajik interior ministry as saying on Wednesday.[…]
Dozens of people were killed in clashes between a domestic armed group and government forces in Gorno-Badakhshan in 2012.

2022 May 18, Olzhas Auyezov, “Tajikistan starts 'anti-terror operation' near China, Afghan borders - RIA”, in Robert Birsel, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-18, Asia Pacific:

An autonomous region of Tajikistan, home to the Pamir mountains and peoples. Capital: Khorugh.


WANA

Initialism of West Asia and North Africa.


Casamance

A region of Senegal located south of The Gambia, with the above river running through it.


North Maine Woods

The northern geographic area of the state of Maine in the United States.


Naryn

A region of Kyrgyzstan, with the city of Naryn as its capital.

نارين

the capital of the Naryn Region, Kyrgyzstan


Quad Cities

the Quad Cities (canonical)
Quad City (alternative attributive)
Quad-City (alternative attributive)

The total population of the Quad Cities in 1950 was 184,493 while the metropolitan area population was 234,256.

1959, Civil Aeronautics Board Reports, volume 28, page 799:

The rest of the afternoon was spent back in front of the fire, discussing art and upcoming events in the Quad Cities.

Don’t forget to get gas in the Quad Cities before heading back to the Trace.

2018, Margaret Littman, Moon Nashville to New Orleans Road Trip: Natchez Trace Parkway, Memphis, Tupelo, Mississippi Blues Trail, Avalon Travel, →ISBN:

A region of cities (originally four) in the U.S. states of Iowa and Illinois: Davenport and Bettendorf in southeastern Iowa, and Rock Island, Moline and East Moline in northwestern Illinois.


Diego Martin

The town is named after Spanish explorer Don Diego Martín.
The region is named after the town.


Couva-Tabaquite-Talparo

The region is named after the towns of Couva, Tabaquite and Talparo.


Mayaro–Rio Claro

Named after the towns of Mayaro and Rio Claro.


Penal–Debe

Named after the towns of Penal and Debe.


Princes Town

Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale

From princes' + town, for the 1880 visit of British princes Albert Victor (1864—1892) and George (1865—1936), later King George V, during which they planted two trees. The area is named for the town. Cf. Princetown, Princeton, and Princeville.


San Juan–Laventille

The region is named after the towns of San Juan and Laventille.


Sangre Grande

Derived from Spanish sangre (“blood”) and grande (“great”). The name is a reference to a pair of tributaries of the Oropouche River with red-coloured water.
The region is named after the town.


Tunapuna–Piarco

The region is named after the towns of Tunapuna and Piarco.


Bas-Saint-Laurent

Saint Lawrence River
Saint Lawrence River#English

An administrative region on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada.


Abitibi-Témiscamingue

An administrative region of Quebec, Canada.


Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine

An administrative region and House of Commons constituency in Quebec, Canada.


Laurentides

From French Laurentides, named after the Laurentian Mountains.


NAWA

Initialism of North Africa and West Asia.


Banská Bystrica

A city, district, and region of Slovakia.


Southern California

sunny Southern California

The southern portion of the state of California, which can include Santa Barbara and is generally separated from Norcal by the Tehachapi mountain range.


Manawatū-Whanganui

Alternative spelling of Manawatu-Wanganui: A region in southern North Island, New Zealand.


Gran Chaco

Borrowed from Paraguayan Spanish Gran Chaco, from Spanish gran (“large; great; grand”) + Spanish chaco (“hunting ground”), a calque of Quechua Hatun Chaku.

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A sparsely populated, hot and semiarid lowland natural region of the Río de la Plata basin, divided among eastern Bolivia, western Paraguay, northern Argentina, and a portion of the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul.


Greater Accra

Greater Accra Region, an administrative region in Ghana, which includes Accra, the capital city.


Gold Country

Some areas of the Gold Country had richer placer deposits than others and drew mobs of hopefuls. A few made lucky finds, like George McKnight, who noticed a golden glitter in a rock he was going to throw at a wandering cow.

2007, Nancy K. Williams, Haunted Hotels of the California Gold Country, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN:

A historic region in northern California, famed for the mineral deposits and gold mines during the California Gold Rush.


Eastern Georgia

From Georgian აღმოსავლეთი საქართველო (aɣmosavleti sakartvelo).

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აღმოსავლეთი საქართველო

A region, the eastern half of the country of Georgia, separated by the Likhi Range.


Western Georgia

From Georgian დასავლეთი საქართველო (dasavleti sakartvelo).

დასავლეთი საქართველო

The western region of the country of Georgia, separated by the Likhi Range.


Jizzakh

Jizakh (alternative)
Jizzak (alternative)
Jizzax (alternative)


Tanintharyi

From Burmese တနင်္သာရီ (ta.nangsari), from Malay Tanah Sari.

A region and former division of Myanmar, also previously the Tenasserim Division.


Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins

Borrowed from Spanish, named after Bernardo O'Higgins.

A region of Chile, often shortened to O'Higgins.


Adrar Region

Meronyms: Atar, Chinguetti


Silicon Slopes

The area of high-tech businesses around Lehi, Utah.


Southern Denmark

An administrative region in the south of Denmark.


Wolaita

A region of Ethiopia; the southern region of Ethiopia.


Old Port

old + port
* (Old Port, Old Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada): From being the original port location of the Port of Montreal established in the 1600s.

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A region of Old Montreal, Ville-Marie borough, Downtown, City of Montreal, Island of Montreal, Montreal Region, Quebec, Canada.


Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima

From Tangier + Tetouan + Al Hoceima, a calque of Arabic طَنْجَة تِطْوَان الْحُسَيْمَة (ṭanja tiṭwān al-ḥusayma).

calque

طَنْجَة تِطْوَان الْحُسَيْمَة

An administrative region of Morocco. Capital: Tangier.


Northeastern Region

administrative regions
administrative region

One of eight administrative regions of Iceland.


Rabat-Salé-Kénitra

Rabat-Salé-Kenitra (alternative)
Rabat-Sale-Kenitra (alternative)


Demerara-Mahaica

A region in Guyana, which borders the Atlantic Ocean.


Negros Island Region

An administrative region of the Philippines, comprising the islands of Siquijor and Negros.


Capital Region

A region of Iceland, containing Reykjavík and several other municipalities.


North Kazakhstan

From north + Kazakhstan, a calque of Kazakh Солтүстік Қазақстан облысы (Soltüstık Qazaqstan oblysy).

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Солтүстік Қазақстан облысы

The northernmost region of Kazakhstan. Capital: Petropavl.


Big Sky Country

Synonym of Prairies (“the Great Plains of North America”).


Western Greece

Calque of Greek Δυτική Ελλάδα (Dytikí Elláda, literally “Western Greece”).

Δυτική Ελλάδα

Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian#English

An administrative region of Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian, Greece.


Moravian-Silesian Region

One of 14 administrative regions of the Czech Republic.


Italian Riviera

A geographic region of Italy, the coastline between the Ligurian Sea, Maritime Alps, and Apennines.