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When I use the function rasterize from the raster library in R, this message appears in the console:

"Found 6085 region(s) and 6409 polygon(s)".

There is 6085 polygons in the shapefile, so I was wondering what does these two terms mean ?

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A polygon is a set of points (vertices) connected to each other in a certain way by lines (edges). A region is one abstraction level higher in that sense that a region consists of one or more polygons.

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