Timeline for Smaller than a continent, bigger than a country
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| Apr 23 at 5:31 | answer | added | Costillo | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jan 27 at 13:57 | comment | added | TimR | Are these regions mutually exclusive/unique? Could you have East Coast (US and Canada) as well as North America and East of the Mississippi? | |
| Jan 27 at 4:23 | comment | added | Peter | Note that ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) contains several states which are islands or island groups, so it is not contained by any continent. | |
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| Jun 1, 2023 at 0:16 | comment | added | Lambie | The usual thing is to have country under continent. That is just the way it is. | |
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| Feb 1, 2023 at 7:54 | comment | added | Kimbi | You could use "area" because it can be just as vague as "region". Or you could use region twice and say something like "geographical region" and "local region" or something like that. | |
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| Sep 5, 2022 at 15:23 | comment | added | jsw29 | It seems that you are writing a document that has a stipulated terminology of its own, and that in the course of writing it you have decided to use region within the document in a particular way. Well and good, creating such a stipulatively defined terminology for use within a particular document is common and often useful. Your decision to use region in this way, however, now precludes you from using it for this other purpose, even though it would otherwise be the best word for it. How to solve that problem is a matter for you to decide; it is not matter of established usage. | |
| Sep 4, 2022 at 11:50 | comment | added | ermanen | You already have the answer: subcontinent. It is not clear what you mean by "something better". I don't believe there is something better, or in better words, something more apt and clear. Another option is neologizing your own word like supercountry, megacountry or multicountry; but they are no better than subcontinent. | |
| Sep 4, 2022 at 6:41 | comment | added | BoldBen | I think that 'region' is the most commonly used term. If you are at the design stage I suggest that you use 'area' for your smaller units and 'region' for the larger one. If the system is already partly implemented use 'area' for the larger one. I'd suggest that you don't use 'landmass' as, to me that implies a large area of land with distinct boundaries and very specific characteristics. | |
| Sep 3, 2022 at 22:50 | comment | added | John Lawler | If they're defined by sociopolitical groupings (i.e, humans) you could call them groupings. If they're defined geologically, you could call them plates or plate assemblies. | |
| Sep 3, 2022 at 22:38 | comment | added | Greybeard | @StuartF - I'm not sure that the East Coast (US + Canada), the Alpine region, ASEAN or the Korean Peninsula can be properly classed as a subcontinent (which usually refers to India and adjoining countries. | |
| Sep 3, 2022 at 22:27 | comment | added | Stuart F | You might want to ask on a computing/database or GIS Stack Exchange how this is handled by other people. You'll almost certainly get better advice. | |
| Sep 3, 2022 at 22:25 | comment | added | Stuart F | Region is a very vague term which can mean a subarea within a country or a part of a continent. I suspect you'll find the same problem with most alternatives. Use subcontinent. | |
| Sep 3, 2022 at 21:47 | answer | added | Anton | timeline score: -1 | |
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| Sep 3, 2022 at 21:27 | comment | added | MarcInManhattan | I'm pretty sure that "region" is the most commonly used term for that. Have you looked in a thesaurus? You'll find options such as "area" and "zone" that might work. | |
| Sep 3, 2022 at 20:19 | history | edited | treecoder | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 3, 2022 at 20:15 | comment | added | treecoder | I have to. Because this information system concerns itself with supply chains. | |
| Sep 3, 2022 at 20:14 | comment | added | Hot Licks | I wonder if you shouldn't make a distinction between political regions and geographic ones. | |
| Sep 3, 2022 at 20:09 | history | edited | treecoder | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 3, 2022 at 20:04 | history | asked | treecoder | CC BY-SA 4.0 |