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Regions divide the world into manageable units for geographic study and understanding. All regions have one or more common characteristic. There are many types of regions such as perceptual, vernacular, formal, functional, and more.

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Position on the Earth's Surface. Relative/Absolute

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Describes the human and physical characteristics of a location.

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How humans interact with the environment and how the environment responds.

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Place

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goods, ideas, or people moving from one location to another.

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Unique physical and human characteristics of a location.

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an example of a place is the Mall of America.

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the Empire State Building is located at 40.7 degrees north (latitude), 74 degrees west (longitude) and It sits at the intersection of 33rd Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City, New York.

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Newspaper Circulation. Where the circulation of a local newspaper is concerned, a city and it's suburbs can be considered as one functional region.

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Definition: Position on the Earth's Surface

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Definition: Position on the Earth's Surface

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an area or division, especially part of a country or the world having definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries.

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vernacular regions include "midwest" or "the south" etc. they have no formal boundaries but are understood in mental maps of the world

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Absolute
Finding a location using longitude and latitude

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Relative:
Finding a location based on the location of something else