title: REGION – HOLISTIC NATURAL-SOCIAL-ECONOMICAL SYSTEM
abstract: Purpose. Formation and socio-economic development of the region, as an independent administrative-territorial unit, requires the consideration of approaches to the definition of term «region» because, among scientists there is still no consensus on the interpretation of this term. The purpose of the article is characteristic of the existing approaches to the definition of «region», their classification, as well as justification of optimal approach to the definition of «region» in the current soc
journal: Odesa National University Herald Geography and Geology