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| x San Francisco Bay Area |
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The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a metropolitan region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses large cities such as San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose,...
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| x Silicon Valley |
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Silicon Valley is the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California, United States. The term originally referred to the region's large number of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers, but eventually came to refer to all the...
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| x The Fens |
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The Fens, also known as the Fenlands, is a geographic area in eastern England, in the United Kingdom.
The Fenland primarily lies around the coast of the Wash; it reaches into two Government regions (East of England and the East Midlands), four...
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| x East Asia |
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East Asia or Eastern Asia (the latter form preferred by the United Nations) is a subregion of Asia that can be defined in either geographical or cultural terms. Geographically and geo-politically, it covers about 12,000,000 km (4,600,000 sq mi), or...
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| x Arabian Peninsula |
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The Arabian Peninsula (in Arabic: شبه الجزيرة العربية šibh al-jazīra al-ʻarabīya or جزيرة العرب jazīrat al-ʻArab), Arabia, Arabistan, and the Arabian subcontinent is a peninsula in Southwest Asia at the junction of Africa and Asia. The area is an...
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| x Middle East |
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The Middle East (or, formerly more common, the Near East) is a region that spans southwestern Asia, southeastern Europe, and northeastern Africa. It has no clear boundaries, often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East. The...
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| x Transylvania |
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Transylvania (Romanian: Ardeal or Transilvania; Hungarian: Erdély; German: Siebenbürgen (help·info), see also other denominations) is a historical region in the central part of Romania. Bounded on the east and south by the Carpathian mountain range...
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| x Burgundy |
Burgundy (French: Bourgogne; German: Burgund) is a region historically situated in modern-day France and Switzerland.
Burgundy was inhabited in turn by Celts, Romans (Gallo-Romans), and in the 4th century assigned by Romans to the Burgundians, a...
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| x Marlborough |
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Marlborough is one of the regions of New Zealand, located in the northeast of the South Island. Marlborough is a unitary authority, both a region and a district, and its council is located at Blenheim. Marlborough is known for its dry climate, the...
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| x Médoc |
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The Médoc (Occitan: Medoc [meˈðuk]) is a region of France, well-known as a wine growing region, located in the département of Gironde, on the left bank of the Gironde estuary, north of Bordeaux. Its name comes from (Pagus) Medullicus, or "country of...
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The Champagne wine region (archaic English: Champany) is a historic province within the Champagne administrative province in the northeast of France. The area is best known for the production of the sparkling white wine that bears the region's name....
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| x Napa Valley |
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Napa Valley AVA is an American Viticultural Area located in Napa County, California, USA. Napa Valley is considered one of the top wine regions in the United States and the world, with a history dating back to the nineteenth century. The combination...
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| x South Park |
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South Park is a high intermontane grassland basin, approximately 10,000 ft (3,000 m) in elevation, in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado. It encompasses approximately 1,000 square miles (2789 km² or 640,000 acres) around the headwaters of the...
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| x Mainland China |
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Mainland China, Continental China, the Chinese mainland or simply the mainland, is a geopolitical term that refers to the area under the jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China (PRC), excluding Hong Kong and Macau, which are under the...
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| x Americas |
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The Americas, or America, are the lands of the Western hemisphere or New World, comprising the continents of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions. America may be ambiguous in English, as it is more commonly used...
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| x Colorado Eastern Plains |
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The Eastern Plains of Colorado refers to region of the U.S. state of Colorado on the east side of the Rocky Mountains, and east of the population centers of the Front Range.
The Eastern Plains are part of the High Plains, which are the westernmost...
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| x Southwestern United States |
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The Southwestern United States is a region defined in different ways by different sources. There is no general agreement on any particular definition. The Southwest historically began at the far west side of Fort Worth, 10 miles east of downtown...
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| x Southeastern United States |
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The US Southeast is the eastern portion of the Southern United States, but the Census Bureau does not provide a standard definition of a "Southeast" region of the United States, and organizations that need to subdivide the US are free to define a ...
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| x Western United States |
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The Western United States, commonly referred to as the American West or simply "the West," traditionally refers to the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States. Because the U.S. expanded westward after its founding, the meaning...
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| x Southern United States |
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The Southern United States—commonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, Down South, or simply the South—constitutes a large distinctive region in the southeastern and south-central United States. Because of the region's unique cultural and...
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| x Midwestern United States |
![Midwest as shown by U.S. Census Bureau official map from [3]](http://img.freebase.com/api/trans/image_thumb/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000004ad66a4?pad=1&maxheight=64&mode=fillcropmid&maxwidth=64)
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The Midwestern United States (in the U.S. generally referred to as the Midwest) is one of the four geographic regions within the United States of America that are officially recognized by the United States Census Bureau.
The region consists of...
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| x Northeastern United States |
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The Northeastern United States (sometimes called simply the Northeast) is a region of the United States. According to the definition used by the United States Census Bureau, the Northeast region consists of nine states: the New England states of...
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| x West Coast of the United States |
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The "West Coast", "Western Seaboard", or "Pacific Coastline" are terms for the westernmost coastal states of the United States. It most often comprises California, Oregon and Washington. Arizona and Nevada, while not coastal states, are often...
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| x Northern United States |
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The Northern United States is a large geographic area of the United States of America. The United States Census Bureau divides some of the northernmost United States into the Midwest Region and Northeast Region. The Census Bureau also includes...
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| x Pacific Northwest |
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The Pacific Northwest is a region in the northwest of North America, bound by the Pacific Ocean to the west. There are several partially overlapping definitions of the region, but they generally include the Canadian province of British Columbia and...
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| x New England |
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New England is a region of the United States. It is located at the northeastern corner of the US, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, Canada and the state of New York, consisting of the modern U.S. states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,...
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| x Central United States |
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The Central United States is sometimes conceived as between the Eastern United States and Western United States as part of a three-region model, roughly coincident with the Midwestern United States plus the western and central portions of the...
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| x South Central United States |
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The South Central United States or South Central states is a region of the United States located in the south central part of the country. It evolved out of the archaic southwest, which originally was literally the western U.S. South. The states of...
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| x Mountain states |
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The Mountain States (also known as the Mountain West) form one of the nine geographic divisions of the United States that are officially recognized by the United States Census Bureau.
The division consists of eight states: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho,...
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| x Northwestern United States |
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The Northwestern United States comprise the northwestern states up to the western Great Plains regions of the United States, and consistently include the states of Oregon and Washington, to which Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Southeast Alaska, and parts...
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| x Great Basin |
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The Great Basin is a large, arid region of the western United States. Its boundaries vary depending on how it is defined, but it is most commonly defined as the contiguous endorheic basin roughly between the Wasatch Mountains and the Sierra Nevada...
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| x Upland South |
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The terms Upper South and Upland South refer to the northern part of the Southern United States, in contrast to the Lower South or Deep South.
There is a slight difference in usage between the two terms. "Upland South" is usually defined based on...
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| x Deep South |
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The Deep South is a descriptive category of the cultural and geographic subregions in the American South. Historically, it is differentiated from the "Upper South" as being the states which were most dependent on plantation type agriculture during...
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| x Gulf Coast of the United States |
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The Gulf Coast region of the United States, sometimes called the Gulf South, South Coast, or Third Coast, comprises the coasts of states which border the Gulf of Mexico. The states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida are known as...
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| x South Atlantic States |
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The South Atlantic United States form one of the nine Census Bureau Divisions within the United States that are recognized by the United States Census Bureau.
This division includes eight states and one district; Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland...
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| x Great Plains |
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The Great Plains are the broad expanse of prairie and steppe which lie west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada. This area covers parts of the U.S. states of Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska,...
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| x Great Lakes region |
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The Great Lakes Region includes the Canadian Province of Ontario, and the eight U.S. states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, New York, and Pennsylvania. The region geographically borders the Great Lakes and forms a...
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| x Upper Midwest |
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The Upper Midwest is a perceived region of the United States with no universally agreed-upon boundary, but it almost always lies within the US Census Bureau's definition of the Midwest and includes the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan,...
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| x West North Central States |
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The West North Central States form one of the nine geographic divisions within the United States that are officially recognized by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Seven states comprise the division: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota...
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| x East North Central States |
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The East North Central States form one of the nine geographic divisions within the United States which are officially recognized by the United States Census Bureau.
The division contains five states: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin....
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| x Atlantic Northeast |
The Atlantic Northeast is a region of North America, comprising New England in the United States and the Maritimes in Canada. Definitions of the region vary; in New England it may be restricted to the rural north, and it may also extend to all of...
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| x East Coast of the United States |
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The East Coast of the United States, also known as the "Eastern Seaboard" or "Atlantic Seaboard", refers to the easternmost coastal states in the central and northern United States, which touch the Atlantic Ocean and stretch up to Canada. In a...
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| x Mid-Atlantic States |
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The Mid-Atlantic States (also called Middle Atlantic States or simply the Mid Atlantic) form a region of the United States generally located between New England and the South. Its exact definition differs upon source, but the region often includes...
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| x Lamorinda |
Lamorinda refers to the area within Contra Costa County, California composed of the cities of Lafayette, Moraga and Orinda. Each city is distinct from the others, but the three share many similar characteristics as described in Central County....
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| x Central Florida |
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Central Florida is the central region of the United States state of Florida, on the East Coast. The region enjoys a hot but stormy climate, with many thunderstorms, and hurricanes threatening often.
Although the exact area can be disputed, Central...
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| x Downriver |
Downriver is the unofficial name for a collection of 18 suburban cities and townships in Wayne County, Michigan south of Detroit along the western shore of the Detroit River.
The name derives from the fact that the Detroit River, after running more...
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| x Nordic countries |
The Nordic countries make up a region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic which consists of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and their associated territories which include the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland. Scandinavia is...
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| x Ukraine |
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Ukraine (English pronunciation/juːˈkreɪn/; Ukrainian: Україна, Ukrayina, /ukrɑˈjinɑ/) is a country in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the east, Belarus to the north, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the west, Romania and Moldova to the...
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| x Kansai |
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The Kansai region (関西地方, Kansai-chihō) or the Kinki region (近畿地方, Kinki-chihō) lies in the southern-central region of Japan's main island Honshū. The region includes the prefectures of Mie, Nara, Wakayama, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyōgo, and Shiga. Sometimes...
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| x Shikoku |
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Shikoku (四国, "four provinces") is the smallest (225 km long and between 50 and 150 km wide) and least populous (4,141,955 as of 2005) of the four main islands of Japan, located south of Honshū and east of the island of Kyūshū. Its ancient names...
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