Tag:place=region

+/- place=region Description Used on these elements Used combinations in World Australia/Oceania Europe (list) Asia (list) Central America (list) South America (list) Africa (list) Status Undefined

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This is a tag from the earliest days of OpenStreetMap and has never been formally defined to my knowledge. It is not clear to me whether this is a broad tag for geographic or historical areas with no clear boundary or for distinct administration areas (with specific boundaries) in some countries. If you are using this tag, please add how you are using it here so that we can eventually define it. MikeCollinson 13:27, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

AFAIK it is used by Openstreetbrowser to render region names (e.g. counties). I've used it in Croatia to name admin level=4, counties. You can see it here--Mvrban 19:07, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

I have used it to describe an area with no specific political signification linked to admin_level, but it is part of an area with admin_level=6: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/74607493

However, in my view a place=region can also be used for areas that cross admin_level boundaries, even with admin_level=2. An example would be Tirol which is spreads over parts of Austria and Italy. --OSMfan 11:31, 27 August 2010 (BST)