A document section is a portion of a word-processing document, such as a chapter, to which you can apply different formatting from the rest of the document. For example, a section can have different page numbering, background images, headers and footers, and table of contents.
A word-processing document is all one section unless you specifically add more sections to it.
In the page thumbnail view on the left side of the Pages window, when you select a page, a blue highlight appears behind all the pages in the same section.