national territory
Country's official domain
National territory is the geographic area over which a nation exercises sovereignty—its land, internal waters, and often airspace and territorial sea.
The term appears in legal and political contexts: The treaty defined the national territory of the new state.
Disputes over national territory can persist for generations, sometimes erupting into armed conflict.
- natural resourcesUseful substances from nature
- borderOuter edge or limit
- jurisdictionLegal authority's scope
- frontierEdge of settlement
- mineral depositsNatural rock-bound resources
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- homelandmotherland, fatherland, homeland, home country, native land
- Irish Constitutionpreamble, articles, constitutional amendments, referendum process, fundamental rights
- geography termsmap, atlas, globe, compass, coordinates
national territoryinternational waters
Ocean beyond national jurisdiction
no man's land · outer space · Antarctica · disputed territory · neutral zone
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