Girard, Nicole <br/><br/>
The Region: A Geographic Notion? 

 -  2004.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> The term « region » is inherent to the geographic discourse, at least in France. It designates a vague portion of space that geographers ever tried to define and that has been given multiple definitions. After analysing the evolution of this notion in the 20th century we propose a definition of its present use.