Types of Regions

a)      Complementary Region :- It’s the region or area served by the central place. It includes relationships in both directions- country to town and town to countryside. This area is tied to the regional centre for the higher order functions although oriented to local towns for lower-order towns. It’s area is larger than urban settlement area.

b)     Congested Region :- It’s the region where the level of economic development has reached a scale at which diseconomies can be detected.diseconomies arise from the continuing increases in the intensity of the use of resources, in particular the transportation system, and eventually this leads to reduction in industrial efficiency. Example:- metropolitan areas in advanced industrial nations.

c)      Core Region :- The term is given by John Friedman for concentrated metropolitan economies, comprising one or more clustered cities and the encompassing area with a high potential for generating and absorbing economic growth.

d)     Declining Region :- A region characterized by absolute economic decline, involving closure of the manufacturing and other establishments, removal of capital and emigration of labour. Example;- Chechniya in Russia.

e)      Depressed Region :- A region which reached the highest level of industrial development but now is in a state of economic depression compared with other regions or while considering some national norms of an individual nation. These regions are typically the problem regions of the advanced industrial nations.

f)       Downward transition Region :- These are peripheral areas containing old established settlements which are either stagnant or declining rural economies with low agricultural productivity, or the loss of a primary resource base by depletion of mineral production, or ageing industrial complexes.

g)      Geographical Region :- J.F.Unstead’s term to describe regions where there is a high degree of homogeneity in both physical environments and human activity.

h)     Geostrategic Regions :- they are also referred as international regions. They are macro-regions reflecting groupings of states within the international system resulting from supra-national forces. These are sufficiently large units over which certain elements of power could be applied and with certain minimal levels of unity in outlook and trading activity. Example:- Heartland, Rimland.

i)        Landuse Region :- A type of forming or land use region may be categorized on the basis of land use specialization. It is a spatially contiguous grouping of aerial units which exhibit a high degree of uniformity in land use type and intensity, associations of crops and livestock and mechanization. Example:- agricultural regions.

j)       Natural Region :- A uniform region based on features of physical environment (topography, climate, vegetation). The area contains within it’s borders relatively uniform and distinctive structural and climatic features.

k)     Planning Region:- It’s a legally bounded space delimited on an ad hoc basis for the purpose of government decision making i.e., a region which is a direct result of the societies need to administer space. Such regions delimited in any nation need not completely exhaust the area but be confined to only part of it.

Resource Frontier Region :- A peripheral area of anew settlement where virgin territory is occupied and made productive of particular importance in this context is the resource frontier, which is an isolated pocket of development, frequently based upon large-scale investment in mineral resources.