district, territory, territorial dominion, dominion (noun)

a region marked off for administrative or other purposes

territory (noun)

an area of knowledge or interest

"his questions covered a lot of territory"

territory, soil (noun)

the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state

"American troops were stationed on Japanese soil"

territory (Noun)

A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district.

territory (Noun)

A geographic area under control of a single governing entity such as state or municipality; an area whose borders are determined by the scope of political power rather than solely by natural features such as rivers and ridges.

territory (Noun)

An area that an animal of a particular species consistently defends against its conspecifics.

Territory

A territory is an administrative division, usually an area that is under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state. In most countries, a territory is an organized division of an area that is controlled by a country but is not formally developed into, or incorporated into, a political unit of the country that is of equal status to other political units that may often be referred to by words such as "provinces" or "regions" or "states". In international politics, a territory is usually either the total area from which a state may extract power resources or any non-sovereign geographic area which has come under the authority of another government; which has not been granted the powers of self-government normally devolved to secondary territorial divisions; or both.