Recently, some politicians become fashionable instead of understandable words such as "area", "edge", "area", to use a foreign term "region".On the one hand, it is clear that the speaker assumes a certain part of the territory, and on the other - it is not clear where the end of its border.Take, for example, the region.Region or not?A district?Can it be called a region?It's time to finally deal with this issue.
What is a region?
This word comes to us from the English language.If open the dictionary and see what the region (region) and how to correctly translate into Russian, it's easy to get confused.A large number of options is simply amazing: district, region, sphere, region, country, and so on. D. From this we can conclude that the region - the concept of a dimensionless, that is not dependent on the area of the territory covered.Thus, this term may be used to refer to virtually any portion of the surface of the planet, with the proviso that the area has a specific set of properties.In other words, answering the question of what the region can be said that it is the integrity and at the same time part of the whole.It should be noted that each language operates with its own set of concepts related to the territorial structure.Therefore, in different states, the term used to refer to the specific, peculiar to this strange phenomenon.For example, in Canada, the administrative structure which consists of the provinces, the regions list includes only four areas: Ontario, Quebec, Atlantic and Western regions.And what we say on this occasion dictionaries?Most details about what the region, said in a popular edition E.Alaeva.According to the source, this concept refers to the territory, which in the aggregate of its constituent elements in comparison with the rest of the territory has some differences.At the same time it is the integrity of the objective conditions and the logical result of its development.
What the term differs from related concepts
closest in meaning to the given word is considered the term "area".It represents a certain part of space or, in principle, the same as a certain limited part of the object.At the same time the word "area" is accepted to use more in the sense of "region" within which the subject to any phenomenon.Now let us consider the word "district".In domestic practice, the term is generally used to refer to any formal administrative unit.In terms of formal-legal approach, the region is the base unit and the greater region.At the same time, the research approach leads to another view.In terms of regionalization, the region is perceived as a formal territorial cells and is a special case of the district.In the area, then this word is used in two ways: as an administrative unit and as a synonym for the word "habitat".
