locality

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A particular neighborhood, place, or district.
• noun The fact or quality of having position in space.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The condition of being in a place; position or situation in general; the immediate relation of an object to a place.
• noun Any part of space; a situation; position; particularly, a geographical place or situation: as, a healthy locality; the locality of a mineral, plant, or animal. Compare habitat, 2.
• noun Legal restriction as to place or location.
• noun In phrenology, the faculty to which is ascribed the power of remembering the details of places and the location of objects.
• noun In phytogeography, the approximate geographic position of an individual specimen: less definite than. station.
• noun In psychology, a phrase loosely formed on the analogy of ‘sense of space,’ ‘sense of time,’ etc., to denote the power of cutaneous localization, that is, of referring a cutaneous stimulus to the area of the skin to which it is applied.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits.
• noun Position; situation; a place; a spot; esp., a geographical place or situation, as of a mineral or plant.
• noun Limitation to a county, district, or place.
• noun (Phren.) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun The fact or quality of having a position in space.
• noun pl. The features or surroundings of a particular place.
• noun The situation or position of an object.
• noun An area or district considered as the site of certain activities; a neighbourhood.
• noun Limitation to a county, district, or place.
• noun dated The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a surrounding or nearby region