Region and its characteristics I Saad Rahoojo

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A region is defined as a part of the Earth’s surface with one or many similar characteristics that make it unique from other areas.
A more comprehensive and widely acceptable definition of region can be given as “an area having the homogeneity of the physical and cultural phenomena”. It has also been defined as “an area that is differentiated from other areas according to the specified criteria”.
In the concluding part of the 19th century, the French geographers like Vidal de Lablache called the areas of similar physical and cultural characteristics as pays. A more comprehensive and widely acceptable definition of region can be given as “an area having the homogeneity of the physical and cultural phenomena”. It has also been defined as “an area that is differentiated from other areas according to the specified criteria”.
Herbertson (1905) was the first to divide the earth into major natural regions on the basis of climatic parameters and thus having some links with the determinism. On the smaller scale, geographers attempted to identify individual areas with particular characteristics.
Attributes of Region:
(i) Regions have location:
All region—physical or cultural—are often expressed in the regional name such as the Middle East, the South-East Asia, the North-West Europe, the Far East, etc.
(ii) Regions have spatial extent:
The homogeneous physical and cultural attributes of the earth surface have spatial (areal) extent. For example, the Thar Desert, the Sahara Desert, the Latin America and Anglo-America cover certain areas of the earth surface. Thus, regions are not in abeyance; they have a personality on the ground.
(iii) Regions have boundaries:
Each region—physical or cultural—has a boundary. The boundary of a region is drawn at the outer edge where the phenomenon (feature) no longer occurs or dominates. For example, where the Himalayas and the Siwaliks end, the Indo-Gangetic plains begin, and where the Gangetic plains end, the Deccan plateau begins. Similar may be the case of the language regions in India. There is a line of demarcation between the Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam regions in India. Similarly, we find the tribal and non-tribal regions in the different states of India
(iv) Regions may be either formal or functional:
Formal regions are areas of essentially uniformity throughout in one or limited combination of physical or cultural features. The equatorial region, the monsoon region, the Sahel region (Africa), the Tundra region, the mountainous region are the examples of formal physical regions. Similarly, we may observe the homogeneity of language, religion, ethnicity and lifestyle in certain areas. Such regions are known as the formal cultural regions.
(v) Regions are hierarchically arranged:
Although regions vary in scale, type and degree of generalization, none stands alone as the ultimate key to areal understanding. Each defines only a part of the spatial (regional) reality.
(vi) Regions have transitional boundaries:
Generally, regions do not have sharp boundaries. In most of the cases their boundaries are transitional. It means there is some overlapping of one phenomenon over the other.
0:00 Introduction
0:55 Regional Geography
1:21 Types of Regions
5:41 What is Region?
7:10 Regionalism
7:33 Old regions of the World
7:40 Pays
8:27 Climate based regions
9:06 Characterstics of Regions
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