Geographers draw lines on a map which show the locations of geographic data held in common by the places inside the lines. We call these regions . Regions help us organize knowledge about land and people. The Ukraine is an agricultural region of Russia. The southeast quadrant of Moscow is a heavily industrialized region within the metropolitan region.
Regions are always artificial and are generalizations which contain exceptions.
Identification of the exceptions should prompt the question 'why' and lead to important learning discoveries.