Local vs. Region

Of, relating to, or characteristic of a particular place

A large, usually continuous segment of a surface or space

Of or relating to a city, town, or district rather than a larger area

A portion of the earth's surface distinguished from others by some characteristic

Not broad or general; not widespread

A bioregion.

Of or affecting a specific part of the body

A political district or unit, often with its adjacent lands

Making all possible or scheduled stops on a route; not express

An area of the body having natural or arbitrarily assigned boundaries

A public conveyance that makes several intermediate stops before the final destination is reached

An area of interest or activity; a sphere

A local chapter or branch of an organization, especially of a labor union.

An approximate degree or amount

A local anesthetic.

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.

(Informal) A person from a particular locality.

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

From or in a nearby location.

(historical) Such a division of the city of Rome and of the territory about Rome, of which the number varied at different times; a district, quarter, or ward.

Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline.

An administrative subdivision of the European Union.

Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.

A subnational region of Chile; equivalent to province.

Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.

(Ontario) regional municipality

(medicine) Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.

Ellipsis of administrative region

Descended from an indigenous population.

(figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.

A person who lives near a given place.

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

A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.

(obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.

(rail transport) local train

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

(British) One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.

One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract.

(programming) A locally scoped identifier.

Tract, part, or space, lying about and including anything; neighborhood; vicinity; sphere.

An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.

The upper air; the sky; the heavens.

Clipping of local anesthetic

The inhabitants of a district.

(finance) An independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf of investors.

Place; rank; station.

A Twitter user who is not a part of Stan Twitter.

The extended spatial location of something;

In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.

A part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve;

Of or pertaining to a particular place, or to a definite region or portion of space; restricted to one place or region; as, a local custom.

A large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth;

A train which receives and deposits passengers or freight along the line of the road; a train for the accommodation of a certain district.

The approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of');

In newspaper cant, an item of news relating to the place where the paper is published.

A knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about;

A train or bus which stops at all stations along a line, as contrasted with an express, which stops only at certain stations designated as express stops.

Public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops;

Anesthetic that numbs a local area of the body

Relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area;

Of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood;

Affecting only a restricted part or area of the body;