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Region or regional may refer to:

Geography

Region is a term used by contemporary geographers to describe an area of land or water that is part of a larger whole. Several types of geographic regions can be found at Region.

Transportation

• RegionsAir, an airline based in the United States
• Regional airline, any airline that services a limited area, or any of several specific regional airlines, including
  • Regional Air (Papua New Guinea), an airline based in Papua New Guinea
  • Regional Air, a defunct airline formerly based in Kenya
  • Regional Air Services (Tanzania), an airline based in Tanzania
  • Regional Express Airlines, an airline based in Australia
  • Regional 1, an airline based in Canada
  • Regional Pacific Airlines, a defunct airline based in Australia
  • Régional, an airline based in France

Regional is also the name of at least two rail lines:

• Regional Railways one of the three former passenger sectors of British Rail from 1981 to 1996
• Regional (Amtrak), a train line that runs between Massachusetts and Virginia

Computer science

• Region-based memory management, a memory management technique in which allocations are organized into regions and all objects in a region can be deallocated at once
• In raster graphics, a region is a data structure used to represent an arbitrary set of pixels (in Apple QuickDraw) or series of shapes (Microsoft Windows Graphics Device Interface or X Window System) to be drawn on the screen
• In digital audio editing, a region is a reference to a portion of an audio file

Mathematics

• Region (mathematical analysis), a non-empty, open, connected set

Corporations

• Regions Financial Corporation, a banking and financial services company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama

Politics

• Region (Europe), a political subdivision within the European Union

Fiction

• Region, a small location in Tolkien's Middle-earth fictional universe
• Regional novel, see
  • American Literary Regionalism
  • British regional literature

Media

• DVD region code

• Blu-ray Region code

• Disambiguation pages