region vs site

region

noun
  • A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated. 

  • Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons. 

  • A subnational region of Chile; equivalent to province. 

  • An administrative subdivision of the European Union. 

  • A subprovincial region of Quebec; the primary level subdivision; a prefecture. 

  • The inhabitants of a region or district of a country. 

  • Such a division of the city of Rome and of the territory about Rome, of which the number varied at different times; a district, quarter, or ward. 

site

noun
  • The posture or position of a thing. 

  • A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications. 

  • A part of the body which has been operated on. 

  • A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation 

  • The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position 

  • A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology. 

  • Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place. 

  • A website. 

verb
  • To situate or place a building or construction project. 

How often have the words region and site occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )