noun
definition
A region that is part of a larger region.
Examples of subregions in a Sentence
The boundaries of the subregions are not well defined.
Four ECDL Online projects have been set up, one in each of the four OSW delivery subregions.
Palaeotropical Ethiopian Region 4 Oriental In the following account the characterization of the various regions and subregions has to a very great extent been adopted from Newton's article in his Dictionary of Birds, and from the chapter on distribution in the article on " Birds " in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th edition.
Naturally no line whatever can be drawn between the Oriental and the Palaearctic subregions, and many otherwise essentially Indo-Malayan families extend far into the Australian realm, far across Wallace's line, whilst the reverse takes place to a much more moderate extent.
The eastern and western halves ale contrasted in climate-the former being moist and the latter dryand have been distinguished by some zoologists as distinct subregions.
This region naturally comprises the African and Indian areas, conformably to be called subregions.
So large a portion of the Ethiopian subregion lies between the tropics that no surprise need be expressed at the richness of its fauna relatively to that of the last two subregions we have considered.
The linear subregions are then constructed in this new space instead of the high dimensional shape space.
Hence, cells typically consist of many different subregions exhibiting different (physical) properties.