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description: The word "region" is taken from the Latin regio (derived from regere, to rule), and a number of countries have borrowed the term as the formal name for a type of subnational entity (e.g., the región, ...

The word "region" is taken from the Latin regio (derived from regere, to rule), and a number of countries have borrowed the term as the formal name for a type of subnational entity (e.g., the región, used in Chile). In English, the word is also used as the conventional translation for equivalent terms in other languages (e.g., the область (oblast), used in Russia alongside with a broader term регион).
The following countries use the term "region" (or its cognate) as the name of a type of subnational administrative unit:
Belgium (in French, région; in German, Region; the Dutch term gewest is often translated as "region")
Chad (région, effective from 2002)
Chile (región)
Congo (région)
Côte d'Ivoire (région)
Denmark (effective from 2007)
England (not the United Kingdom as a whole)
Eritrea
France (région)
Ghana
Guinea (région)
Guinea-Bissau (região)
Guyana
Hungary (régió)
Italy (regione)
Madagascar (région)
Mali (région)
Namibia
New Zealand
Peru (región)
Philippines (rehiyon)
Senegal (région)
Tanzania
Togo (région)
Trinidad and Tobago (Regional Corporation)
The Canadian province of Québec also uses the "administrative region" (région administrative).
Scotland had local government regions from 1975 to 1996.
In Spain the official name of the autonomous community of Murcia is Región de Murcia. Also, some single-province autonomous communities such as Madrid use the term región interchangeably with comunidad autónoma.
Two län (counties) in Sweden are officially called 'regions': Skåne and Västra Götaland, and there is currently a controversial proposal to divide the rest of Sweden into large regions, replacing the current counties.
The government of the Philippines uses the term "region" (in Filipino, rehiyon) when it's necessary to group provinces, the primary administrative subdivision of the country. This is also the case in Brazil, which groups its primary administrative divisions (estados; "states") into grandes regiões (greater regions) for statistical purposes, while Russia uses экономические районы (economic regions) in a similar way, as does Romania and Venezuela.
The government of Singapore makes use of the term "region" for its own administrative purposes.
The following countries use an administrative subdivision conventionally referred to as a region in English:
Bulgaria, which uses the област (oblast)
Russia, which uses the область (oblast'), and for some regions the край (krai)
Ukraine, which uses the область (oblast')
Slovakia (kraj)
China has five 自治区 (zìzhìqū) and two 特別行政區 (or 特别行政区; tèbiéxíngzhèngqū), which are translated as "autonomous region" and "special administrative region", respectively.

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