Regions are changing constantly. When two people group places together into a region, they might do it differently. What region of the United States do you live in? In a short paragraph, describe your region and write about three distinguishing characteristics it possesses?

A region is an area of land that has common features. These features can be natural, such as climate or landscape. They can also be artificial, such as language or religion. The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, above, is an area of China inhabited by Uyghurs, a Muslim group with ethnic ties to Turkish people.