Region

A region is a named collection of different types of locations, including towns, outposts, missions, dungeons and explorable areas with a common theme. This theme can be seen as represented by the region's loading screen.

Regions usually have a shared set of creatures, a key and chest pair, and a common section in the quest log. Sometimes one or more of these factors are instead shared by a smaller set of locations that are not technically a region; such are known as subregions.

The skills Edification and Heart of the Norn are triggered by being in the Tarnished Coast and Far Shiverpeaks regions, respectively.

List of regions

Region	Subregions	Releases
The Battle Isles		Core
The Mists	The Rift
Ascalon		Prophecies Eye of the North Bonus Mission Pack
Crystal Desert		Prophecies Eye of the North
Kryta		Prophecies Bonus Mission Pack
Ascalon (pre-Searing)		Prophecies
Maguuma Jungle
Shiverpeak Mountains	Northern Shiverpeaks Southern Shiverpeaks Sorrow's Furnace
Ring of Fire Island Chain
Shing Jea Island		Factions Bonus Mission Pack
Kaineng City		Factions
Echovald Forest
The Jade Sea
Kourna		Nightfall Bonus Mission Pack
Istan		Nightfall
Vabbi
The Desolation
Realm of Torment	Domain of Anguish
Charr Homelands		Eye of the North
Depths of Tyria
Far Shiverpeaks
Tarnished Coast