foreign land
Overseas territory visited
A foreign land is a country other than one's own—somewhere unfamiliar, governed by different customs and laws.
The phrase often carries romantic or adventurous connotations: She dreamed of traveling to foreign lands.
It can also suggest alienation or displacement: After twenty years away, his hometown felt like a foreign land.
- abroadIn foreign territory
- exoticStrikingly unusual, foreign-seeming
- terra incognitaUnexplored or unknown region
- distantFar away or aloof
- overseasIn foreign countries
distant shores · faraway · alien · strange · unfamiliar · culture shock · out of place · borders · passport · green card · traveler · world traveler · exile · immigrant · shores · territory · frontier · horizon
- travel themesadventure, beach, mountain, road trip, safari
- Unfamiliar Thingsstranger, unknown, mystery, enigma, novelty
- diasporaAfrican diaspora, exiles, Irish diaspora, emigrants, Jewish diaspora
- other placeselsewhere, somewhere else, other side, away, abroad
familiarity and belonging
foreign landhomeland
One's native land
home country · native land · home · motherland · fatherland
foreign, land, foreigner, foreignness, lands, landed, landing, landlord, landless