They may just be a list of other locations but can also contain specific text for that region that does not fit well into any other region or city.
Examples include:
- geographical areas that span political boundaries, like Appalachia, the Andes or Lake Tai
- region names in fairly wide use that do not fit our hierarchy, like Western New York
- administrative regions that may be important to officials but do not matter much to travellers, for example Mimaropa in the Philippines or Shanghai/Pudong New Area
Pages are tagged at the bottom with the {{extraregion}} template. Displaying:
Articles are added to Category:Extra regions.
Note that an extraregion should typically not have any subregions or destinations which use it in their {{IsPartOf}} template. When changing an existing region article to an extraregion, it's a good idea to check the destinations listed and change them to the appropriate hierarchical parent, as appropriate. Rare exceptions can be made when the child article is itself a valid extraregion, such as the case where the Great Lakes includes Lake Ontario.
In some cases a region is better described as a travel topic than as an extraregion.