GEOGRAPHICAL ZONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does geographical zone mean? 

• GEOGRAPHICAL ZONE (noun)
  The noun GEOGRAPHICAL ZONE has 1 sense:

1. any of the regions of the surface of the Earth loosely divided according to latitude or longitude

  Familiarity information: GEOGRAPHICAL ZONE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GEOGRAPHICAL ZONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the regions of the surface of the Earth loosely divided according to latitude or longitude

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

geographical zone; zone

Hypernyms ("geographical zone" is a kind of...):

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "geographical zone"):

climatic zone (any of the geographical zones loosely divided according to prevailing climate and latitude)

time zone (any of the 24 regions of the globe (loosely divided by longitude) throughout which the same standard time is used)

transit zone (a six million square mile area that includes the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico and the eastern Pacific Ocean; includes the principal routes used by drug smugglers)