We explain what a political region is, its characteristics and detailed examples. Also, other types of regions.
What is a political region?
The political regions or political-administrative regions are the areas in which the humanity divide the land surface according to powers Y governments sovereigns in them. They are the administrative divisions of the territories of the state, but also administratively or politically similar areas that span different countries.
Political regions are a specific type of geographic region, which distinguishes between regions based on the political element, that is, based on the management of can. In these regions there are also competing forces, cultural tendencies and actors of diverse nature, but these elements, as well as those of a natural, economic, etc. type, have not been taken into consideration.
Examples of political regions
Some examples of political regions are:
- The Mexican federal state. It is divided into 32 states, each of which represents a specific political region, endowed with its own public powers: Aguascalientes, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Mexico City, Coahuila, Colima, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacán de Ocampo, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Puebla, Querétaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Yucatan and Zacatecas.
- China and its special administrative regions. They constitute the same country, but with relatively independent political regimes: Hong Kong, Macao, Woolong, etc.
- The State of the Argentine Republic. It is organized into six administrative regions that each cover different provinces: Northwest (Catamarca, Tucumán, Salta, Jujuy), Northeast (Santiago del Estero, Chaco, Formosa, Corrientes, Misiones), Center (Mendoza, San Luis, San Juan, La Rioja, Córdoba), Central East (Santa Fe, Entre Ríos, Buenos Aires), Northern Patagonia (La Pampa, Neuquén, Río Negro, Chubut) and Southern Patagonia (Santa Cruz, Tierra del Fuego, Falkland Islands).
Other types of regions
Apart from the political, geographical regions can be organized according to various criteria, depending on the specific element in which we decide to focus. We have, like this:
- Natural regions. When we choose to look at the natural conformation of the terrain: relief, hydrography, vegetation, weather, etc.
- Economic regions. If we look at the way in which societies people organize their productive work and financial.
- Cultural regions. If we look exclusively at the similarity of the cultures local (generally using for this the religion or the spoken language) and the territories occupied by its practitioners.
- Urban regions. Those that generally comprise a large urban population (a great town) and those of lesser preponderance that accompany it or depend on it.