Regional space

One of the classic problems of geography is to determine what and what is the regional space, or region. A region is a space that is organized in a homogeneous and differentiated way.

Depending on the criteria used to give coherence to the space, we will have one type of region or another. These criteria are scale dependent, so all good all good often regions overlap. It can be distinguished between: natural, historical, economic, urban region, etc. Given the multidisciplinary nature of geography, and the different scales and spaces that we use, the phenomena are distributed in the regions overlapping each other. It is practically impossible that we can define a geographical region by all the criteria. We must, then, choose a dominant phenomenon to define the regions in space.

The study of the region was of great importance in the geography of Paul Vidal de la Blache, but his rigid concept of region tended to cause his geography to become stagnant.