John F. Kennedy International Airport is one of the busiest airports in the New York City area, The Statue of Liberty, located on Liberty Island, is one of the cities biggest attractions.
There is a major difference between formal and functional regions. Formal regions are huge areas that are characterized by many activities. A functional region is a region that serves other regions, like major cities serving rural areas.
Individual countries comprise formal regions, as do areas of common religion or climate, or areas in which rice or fishing dominate. Each such formal region is defined by a set of criteria that is reasonably common or homogeneous across an area.his is because the northern portion of what is now Vietnam participated in the civilization shared by what is now China, Japan, and Korea; the southern areas of Vietnam were more closely linked with the civilization shared by South Asia/India and its neighbors.