Regional planning can cover learning about where to place settlements, how to efficiently dispose of the waste of a given community, or when to adjust previous plans to protect the environment. Programs around the world may be specific to the area where the class is offered.

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the western most point of Eurasia, Europe is usually divided from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting the Black and Aegean Seas.