Local vs. Region

Difference Between Local and Region
Localadjective
From or in a nearby location.
We prefer local produce.Regionnoun
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 regionsthe temperate regionsthe polar regionsthe upper regions of the atmosphereLocaladjective
Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.
Regionnoun
An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country or the European Union.
Localadjective
Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.
Regionnoun
(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.
Localadjective
(medicine) Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
The patient didn't want to be sedated, so we applied only local anesthesia.Regionnoun
(figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
Localadjective
Descended from an indigenous population.
Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population.Regionnoun
(anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
the abdominal regionsLocalnoun
A person who lives near a given place.
It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.Regionnoun
(obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.
Localnoun
A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.Regionnoun
(obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.
Localnoun
(rail transport) A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local.Regionnoun
the extended spatial location of something;
the farming regions of Francereligions in all parts of the worldregions of outer spaceLocalnoun
(British) One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
I got barred from my local, so I've started going all the way into town for a drink.Regionnoun
a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve;
in the abdominal regionLocalnoun
(programming) A locally scoped identifier.
Functional programming languages usually don't allow changing the immediate value of locals once they've been initialized, unless they're explicitly marked as being mutable.Regionnoun
a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth;
penguins inhabit the polar regionsLocalnoun
An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
Regionnoun
the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of');
it was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the jobthe price is in the neighborhood of $100Localnoun
clipping of local anesthetic
1989, Road House, 39:59:Well, Mr. Dalton, you may add nine staples to your dossier of thirty‐one broken bones, two bullet wounds, nine puncture wounds and four steel screws. That’s an estimate, of course. I’ll give you a local.Regionnoun
a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about;
it was a limited domain of discoursehere we enter the region of opinionthe realm of the occultLocalnoun
public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops;
the local seemed to take forever to get to New YorkLocalnoun
anesthetic that numbs a local area of the body
Localadjective
relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area;
local taxeslocal authoritiesLocaladjective
of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood;
local customslocal schoolsthe local citizensa local point of viewlocal outbreaks of flua local bus lineLocaladjective
affecting only a restricted part or area of the body;
local anesthesia