regions

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.

“the equatorial regions”

An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country.

The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.

A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.

“the abdominal regions”

Place; rank; station; dignity.

The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.

(definite: the regions) the rest of the country excluding the capital city or metropolitan region