Question

are bangkok and seattle essentially like each other, or is bangkok more like nan province and seattle more like phillips county?
○ bangkok and seattle have more in common with each other than with nearby rural areas.
● both bangkok and seattle have more in common with nearby rural areas than with each other.
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you have just completed a regions exercise. you had to decide whether a specific functional region based on trade relationships was more or less important than two formal regions based on national borders. use your geographer’s notebook to reflect on how this exercise has changed the way you think about regions.

Explanation:

The question is about regional similarities, which relates to the study of regions in Geography (a subfield of Natural Science). The selected option states that Bangkok and Seattle share more with nearby rural areas than with each other, aligning with concepts of regional (especially rural - urban and functional/formal region) relationships.

Answer:

Both Bangkok and Seattle have more in common with nearby rural areas than with each other.