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Region

Region names the place where a philosophical school actually began. Wikipedia notes Stoicism was "founded in the ancient Agora of Athens," and was "popularized through public teaching at the Stoa Poikile, a painted colonnade" in that same city. This dimension shows which places have produced the schools of thought that shaped later philosophy.

Region

Abbasid Iraq and Persia, later al-Andalus (Islamic Spain)

Africa

Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece (Athens and its wider world)

Ancient Greece and the Hellenistic Mediterranean

Ancient Greece, later the Roman Empire

Argentina, later broader Latin America

Athens, Greece

Athens, later the Roman Empire

Athens, later the wider Mediterranean world

Britain (England, Scotland)

Britain, later United States

Britain, later worldwide

China

China (Warring States period and after)

China, later Korea, Japan, and Vietnam

Continental Europe

Europe

Europe and North America

France

France (building on Swiss linguistic origins)

France (Paris), Francophone Africa and the Caribbean

France, later global Western academia

France, with roots in Denmark and Germany

Germany, later France

Germany, later international

India

Indian subcontinent

Indian subcontinent, later Tibet, China, and Central Asia

Indian subcontinent, later Tibet, China, and Japan

Iraq, later the broader Sunni Islamic world

Italy, later the worldwide Roman Catholic Church

Kenya, later broader East and Sub-Saharan Africa

Korea (Joseon dynasty)

Kyoto, Japan

New England, chiefly Boston and Concord, Massachusetts

Persia, later the broader Islamic world

Prussia (Germany)

Roman Empire (Alexandria and Rome)

United Kingdom and United States

United States

Vienna, Austria

Western Europe

Western Europe (England, France)

Western Europe (Greece, Rome, medieval Christendom)