# regional (spatial)

of a region in a local area

- Computed level: L7 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: spatial  ·  Arena: regional

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [region](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-region.spatial), [local](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-local.spatial), [area](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-area.spatial)

**Through:** the region and the local area together form a bounded part of space that is locally situated

**Novel properties:**
- locally bounded extent
- situated region

## Examples
- The Mekong River Commission coordinates water use among Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam to manage seasonal monsoon flows. *(institutions)*
- Farmers in Iowa's Cedar Rapids region adjust planting schedules yearly based on localized floodplain data from the National Weather Service. *(agriculture)*
- The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake triggered regional GPS network adjustments across Japan's tectonic plate boundary zones. *(geophysics)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-regional.spatial*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-regional.spatial.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*