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 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.
• 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.

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