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region 1. an area considered as a unit for geographical, functional, social, or cultural reasons 2. an administrative division of a country 3. (in Scotland from 1975 until 1996) any of the nine territorial divisions into which the mainland of Scotland was divided for purposes of local government; replaced in 1996 by council areas region [′rē·jən] (computer science) A group of machine addresses which refer to a base address. (mathematics) The union of an open connected set with a subset of its boundary points (which may be the entire boundary or the empty set). How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| * The Chinese University of Hong Kong Prince of Wales Hospital,
Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region,
People's Republic of China; and ([dagger]) Department of Health,
Kowloon, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People's Republic
of China
We are, after all, talking
about a new administrative region almost 7,000 miles from the
Champs-Elysees, an out-of-sight, out-of-mind territory on the order of
Tahiti. The project team is supported by the Research Fund for the Control
of Infectious Diseases from the Health, Welfare and Food Bureau of the
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government. |
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