System and method for providing information to a portable terminal

An information providing system comprising:

• a portable terminal that is connected with a registration terminal for registering target information that is to be used by the portable terminal, and that provides the target information in the registration terminal to the portable terminal;
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• the registration terminal being adapted to associate a plurality of different pieces of the target information with a single information group, and to register the information group, which is correlated with reference position information for specifying a reference position as a reference;
• the target information in the registration terminal being provided to the portable terminal by automatically selecting a particular one of the different pieces of the target information from the information group on the basis of the positional relationship between the reference position that is specified by the reference position information corresponding to the information group, and the portable terminal, and by transmitting the selected target information to the portable terminal.