region

(noun): Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons.
(noun): An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country.
(noun): The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
(noun): A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
(noun): Place; rank; station; dignity.
(noun): The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.