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RegionWithin
  • See Also
    • RegionEqual
    • RegionDisjoint
    • RegionMember
    • BoundingRegion
    • RegionNearest
    • RegionDistance
    • RandomPoint
  • Related Guides
    • Region Properties and Measures
    • Polygons
    • Polyhedra
    • See Also
      • RegionEqual
      • RegionDisjoint
      • RegionMember
      • BoundingRegion
      • RegionNearest
      • RegionDistance
      • RandomPoint
    • Related Guides
      • Region Properties and Measures
      • Polygons
      • Polyhedra

RegionWithin[reg1,reg2]

returns True if reg2 is contained within reg1.

Details and Options
Details and Options Details and Options
Examples  
Basic Examples  
Scope  
Basic Uses  
Basic Regions  
Formula Regions  
Mesh Regions  
Derived Regions  
Options  
Assumptions  
GenerateConditions  
Applications  
Properties & Relations  
See Also
Related Guides
History
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BUILT-IN SYMBOL
  • See Also
    • RegionEqual
    • RegionDisjoint
    • RegionMember
    • BoundingRegion
    • RegionNearest
    • RegionDistance
    • RandomPoint
  • Related Guides
    • Region Properties and Measures
    • Polygons
    • Polyhedra
    • See Also
      • RegionEqual
      • RegionDisjoint
      • RegionMember
      • BoundingRegion
      • RegionNearest
      • RegionDistance
      • RandomPoint
    • Related Guides
      • Region Properties and Measures
      • Polygons
      • Polyhedra

RegionWithin

RegionWithin[reg1,reg2]

returns True if reg2 is contained within reg1.

Details and Options

  • The region reg2 is contained within reg1 if every point that belongs to reg2 also belongs to reg1.
  • If all regi are parameter-free regions, i.e. ConstantRegionQ[regi] is True, the regions are point sets, and typically True or False is returned.
  • If some regi depend on parameters, i.e. ConstantRegionQ[regi] is False, then regi represents a family of regions, and RegionWithin will attempt to compute conditions on parameters such that reg2 is contained within reg1.
  • The following options can be given:
  • Assumptions $Assumptionsassumptions to make about parameters
    GenerateConditions Falsewhether to generate conditions on parameters

Examples

open all close all

Basic Examples  (2)

Test whether a region is contained within another:

Visualize them:

Generate conditions for which a region is contained within another:

Scope  (15)

Basic Uses  (3)

Test for membership:

Show a region is not within another:

Find conditions that make a region a subset of another:

Basic Regions  (4)

Regions in including Line and Interval:

Point:

Ball:

InfiniteLine:

Regions in including Point:

Line:

Polygon:

Disk and Ellipsoid:

Rectangle and RegularPolygon:

Regions in including Point:

Line:

Polygon:

Cuboid and Hexahedron:

Ball and Ellipsoid:

Tetrahedron and Simplex:

Regions in including Cuboid and Parallelepiped in :

Ellipsoid and Ball in :

Formula Regions  (4)

Implicit regions:

Parametric regions:

Compare two formula regions:

Nonconstant formula regions:

Mesh Regions  (3)

Compare MeshRegion in :

In :

In :

Compare BoundaryMeshRegion in :

In :

In :

Compare MeshRegion with BoundaryMeshRegion in :

In :

Derived Regions  (1)

Compare BooleanRegion:

Options  (2)

Assumptions  (1)

Find all disks that contain the unit circle:

Find only the positive radii:

GenerateConditions  (1)

Find when the unit disk lies within an implicitly described annulus:

Show the conditions for which the result is valid:

Explicitly allow for degenerate cases:

Applications  (7)

All convex combinations of points lie within their convex hull:

Find the largest disk contained in a given triangle:

Approximate the largest axes-aligned ellipse contained in the triangle:

Find the smallest disk that contains a given triangle:

Find the smallest axes-aligned ellipse that contains the triangle:

Find all countries that lie completely within the Caribbean Sea:

The polygons of each country:

Select the countries whose polygons lie within the Caribbean Sea:

Verify the results:

View these countries on a map:

Find and visualize all positions where a unit rectangle lies within an annulus:

Perform a random walk inside a region:

Define a function to walk a point in a random direction, staying inside a region:

Simulate a random walk from an initial point:

Visualize the walk:

Use RegionWithin as a partial ordering to visualize concentric disks:

Disks with larger radii can completely cover other disks:

Sort the regions according to membership:

Visualize the rearranged disks:

Properties & Relations  (5)

Use RegionMember to test the membership of a point:

Use RegionWithin to test the membership of a region:

When ℛ2 is within ℛ1, all points in ℛ2 are members of ℛ1:

Check if two regions are equal:

For non‐empty regions, RegionDisjoint returns False when RegionWithin returns True:

Use FindInstance to find points that violate the subset condition:

Use RandomPoint to find a uniform sampling of points that violate the subset condition:

Use Reduce to find where the subset condition is violated:

See Also

RegionEqual  RegionDisjoint  RegionMember  BoundingRegion  RegionNearest  RegionDistance  RandomPoint

Related Guides

    ▪
  • Region Properties and Measures
  • ▪
  • Polygons
  • ▪
  • Polyhedra

History

Introduced in 2017 (11.1)

Wolfram Research (2017), RegionWithin, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RegionWithin.html.

Text

Wolfram Research (2017), RegionWithin, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RegionWithin.html.

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2017. "RegionWithin." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RegionWithin.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2017). RegionWithin. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RegionWithin.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_regionwithin, author="Wolfram Research", title="{RegionWithin}", year="2017", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RegionWithin.html}", note=[Accessed: 01-March-2026]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2025_regionwithin, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={RegionWithin}, year={2017}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RegionWithin.html}, note=[Accessed: 01-March-2026]}

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