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Region (geography)

An area of a country or the world with definable characteristics.

First in use: ancient / pre-modern
Duplicate · right

Cloud region

A geographic cluster of a cloud provider's data centers, such as us-east-1.

First in use: c. 2006

Region / Region (geography) / Cloud region

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Geography vs. us-east-1.

Which meaning of Region is the original, and which one is the duplicate riding on its name? Region (geography) came first (ancient / pre-modern). Cloud region arrived in 2006. The data below shows which one owns the word now.

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Region (geography)

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Duplicate · c. 2006

Cloud region

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