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Named grid areas improve readability by letting you describe the layout in terms of semantic regions rather than numeric row and column coordinates. With grid-template-areas you can lay out a visual pattern as strings, for example using a diagram like 'header header' / 'nav main' / 'footer footer'. Each region is then assigned to grid items via grid-area, such as grid-area: header, grid-area: nav, and so on. This makes the structure of the page immediately clear in the CSS, so you can understand and modify the layout at a glance without tracing multiple coordinates. It also supports easier maintenance: moving a region or reordering the page can be done by tweaking the area names in the diagram rather than recalculating grid lines everywhere. This feature doesn’t remove gaps, isn’t tied to media queries, and isn’t deprecated—it's a standard, current part of CSS Grid. It’s especially powerful when paired with semantic HTML, since the area names reflect the meant regions of the page.