Blog Post #10!

Hi-Ya Reader, my name is Lane Miller. And this is my Human Geography blog post. Today in class we got a new topic, Regions, and we had to define the four different types of regions and compare and contrast them. First, we have a formal region- an area designated by official boundaries, next is functional region- this is a place and the surrounding places affected by it, then we have vernacular region- a distinctive area where the inhabitants collectively consider themselves interconnected by a shared history, then finally we have just a normal region- an area or division, especially part of a country or the world having definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries. Now to compare an example of a formal region would be something like Maryland, while a functional region would be Baltimore, and then finally a vernacular region would be the mid-Atlantic states. a vernacular region does not technically have actual borders but could have a similar history to the places in it. While a functional would be like the metro area of a city, and a formal region has real definite borders. 

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