Equal Area - Kintouchiiki

...There are many compound words for "region," such as "local residents," "local community," "regionalism," "regional planning," "regional designation," "regionality," and "regional division." The importance of the concept of region is also increasing in legal terminology, with "region" becoming one of the keywords related to modern society.
[Equal Areas and Unified Areas]
The viewpoints for defining real regions can be broadly divided into two categories: uniformity and uniformity. The former is to define regions so that partial differences in indicators within the region are as small as possible, that is, so that uniformity (uniformity, homogeneity) is recognized overall.

*Some of the terminology used in reference to "equal-distribution areas" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…また地域の複合語としては，地域住民，地域社会，地域主義，地域計画，地域指定，地域性，地域区分など多数のものがあり，法律用語においても地域概念の重要性が高まり，〈地域〉は現代社会に関するキーワードの一つとなっている。
［均等地域と統一地域］
　実質地域を画定する観点は，均等性と統一性との二つに大きく分けられる。前者は，指標に関して地域内部の部分的差異がなるべく小さくなるように，すなわち全体的に均等性(一様性，等質性)が認められるように画定するものである。…

※「均等地域」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典｜株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第２版について | 情報