#geographical_area__geographic_area__geographical_region__geographic_region  a demarcated area of the Earth
  subtype:  Andalusia  Appalachia  Nubia  desert  semidesert  borderland  place  catchment_area  river_basin  geographical_zone  environs  dust_bowl  hemisphere  hotspot  panhandle.geographical_area {rural_area urban_area}  sphere_of_influence  field.geographical_area  settlement.geographical_area  piece_of_land  Victoria_Land  wilderness  zone.geographical_area  French_region  Baltic_State  Colony
  instance:  Bad_Lands  Barbary  Caucasia  East_USA  Southeast_USA  Southwest_USA  Northeast_USA  Northwest_USA  Midwest_USA  West_USA  Wild_West_USA  Phrygia  Pontus  Illyria  Caribbean  Bengal  Patagonia  pampas  Rhineland  Southeast_Asia  Manchuria  Turkistan  French_Indochina  Central_America  Czechoslovakia  Bohemia  northern_Europe  Scandinavia  Brandenburg  Prussia  Ruhr_Valley  Thuringia  Karelia  Epirus  Laconia  Lycia  Lydia  Thessalia  Arcadia  Middle_East  Fertile_Crescent  West_Bank  Galilee  Gaza_Strip  Golan_Heights  Canaan  Juda  Judea  Philistia  Byzantine_Empire  Montenegro  Dalmatia  Serbia  Labrador  Maritime_Provinces  Klondike  Austria-Hungary  British_Empire  East_Anglia  Lancashire  Yorkshire  Northumbria  West_Country  Sussex  Wessex  Ulster  Hindustan  Sikkim  Kanara  Punjab  Gujerat  Maharashtra  Levant  Macedon  Thrace  Mesopotamia  Babylonia  Sumer  Assyria  Phoenicia  Gallia  Riviera  Midi  Normandie  Orleanais  Lyonnais  Guiana  ultima_Thule  Lappland  Mongolia  Western_Sahara  Kashmir  Parthia  Siberia  Livonia  Colchis  Donets_Basin  Latin_America  Galicia  Leon.geographical_area  Sudan  Tanganyika  Ionia  New_England  Mid-Atlantic_states  Gulf_States  Confederate_States_of_America  South_USA  Deep_South  Old_South  Sunbelt  Tidewater  Piedmont  Union  North_USA  Carolina  Dakota.geographical_area  Bluegrass_Country  Low_Countries  Lusitania  Silesia  Big_Sur  Silicon_Valley  Sub-Saharan_Africa  Scythia  West_Africa
  supertype:  region  a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth; "penguins inhabit the polar regions"
     supertype:  location  a point or extent in space
        supertype:  space  point or extent in space
           supertype:  spatial_object__spatialobject  object which as a direct spatial location, e.g., physical object, spatial region or shape
              supertype:  object__entity_with_spatial_feature  spatial object (space, location or physical object) or description medium/container (e.g., string, language, image); in a 4D ontology, an object is something whose spatiotemporal extent is thought of as dividing into spatial parts roughly parallel to the time-axis
                 supertype:  entity  something that can be "involved" in a situation
                    supertype:  thing__something___T__t___3D_or_4D_thing_or_anything_else  any category (type or individual) is instance of this type; any type is also a subtype of this type
                 supertype:  physical__physical_thing  an entity that has a location in space-time; locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time; click here for more details on the identical category sowa#physical_thing
                    supertype:  thing__something___T__t___3D_or_4D_thing_or_anything_else  any category (type or individual) is instance of this type; any type is also a subtype of this type
              supertype:  partially_tangible__partiallytangible  A subcollection of cyc#SpatialThing-Localized and cyc#TemporalThing. Each instance of cyc#PartiallyTangible has a tangible (i.e. material) part and a temporal extent (i.e. it exists in time). It might or might not also have an intangible part. For example, a particular copy of a book is made of matter, has temporal extent, and also has an intangible part: the information content of the text markings on its pages.
                 supertype:  thing__something___T__t___3D_or_4D_thing_or_anything_else  any category (type or individual) is instance of this type; any type is also a subtype of this type
              supertype:  individual__particular___supertype_of_1st_order_types  all individuals (for concepts or relations) are implicitely or explicitely instance of that type
                 supertype:  thing__something___T__t___3D_or_4D_thing_or_anything_else  any category (type or individual) is instance of this type; any type is also a subtype of this type
     supertype:  component_part__componentpart__part__portion  something determined in relation to something that includes it; "he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself"; "I read a portion of the manuscript"; "the smaller component is hard to reach"
        supertype:  relation  an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
           supertype:  thing_that_can_be_seen_as_a_relation  usable as relation type
              supertype:  thing_playing_some_role  category to classify things according to roles/viewpoints; classification under this category is application-dependant
                 supertype:  thing__something___T__t___3D_or_4D_thing_or_anything_else  any category (type or individual) is instance of this type; any type is also a subtype of this type

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