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re·gion/?r?j?n/
Noun:
An area or division, esp. part of a country or the world having definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries.
An administrative district of a city or country.

Your community is part of a region. A region can be 
described in different ways. You can tell about the 
human features of the region, such as the language 
people speak or the religion they follow. You can also 
tell about the kind of land in the area or the weather.
There are many types of regions in the United 
States. One type of region is a land region. A land 
region has similar kinds of land, water, or plants. 
For example, the West is a land region made up 
of mountains. The Midwest has rolling grasslands. 
Eastern Tennessee is part of the Appalachian region 
and has mountains like the West.
Land regions can be big or small.  A big land 
region can be a group of states that are located 
together. A small land region can be a city and the 
towns around it.
Regions and Cultures
Another type of region is made up of people and their 
culture. People in a cultural region have some cultural 
feature in common. They may have the same beliefs, 
speak the same language, eat the same food, listen to 
the same music, or learn the same things in school.
One place can belong to many regions. For 
example, Jonesborough, Tennessee, is part of the 
small land region around Johnson City. It is also 
part of the state of Tennessee. A state is a political 
region. A political region has official lines that show 
where the region begins and ends. Jonesborough 
belongs to the large land region of the South, too.