What is meant in geography by peripheral region?

Question

What is meant in geography by peripheral region?

Answer 1

Most often the term 'peripheral region' is used when discussing urban areas and the growing and spreading of urbanization.

The peripheral region is the outer most perimeter of the area. So, if you were discussing a city, it is the outskirts of that particular city and the area just beyond.

Answer 2

periphery means "edge"

a peripheral region would be one not at the center of things, not at the center of your focus area, but at the edges of it.

Answer 3

A peripheral region is a region that is isolated from another region because of physical and human factors. This means that it is physically and economically isolated from the 'main' region.

Factors that effect the main region, don't effect the peripheral region.

For example the Mezzogiorno region in southern Italy is a peripheral region.