the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of'), a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve, Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons
All of the people inhabiting a specified area, The total number of inhabitants constituting a particular race, class, or group in a specified area, A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world