'Regions' in the Bible

And Saul agreed completely with killing. Now on that day a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were forced to scatter throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria.

While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul went through the inland regions and came to Ephesus. He found some disciples there

After he had gone through those regions and spoken many words of encouragement to the believers there, he came to Greece,