southlands
Territories below north
Southlands refers to regions lying to the south, especially in relation to a speaker's location or a story's setting.
The term appears most often in literary or fantasy contexts, evoking warm climates, distant territories, or lands beyond familiar borders: Traders brought spices from the southlands.
It suggests somewhere remote and often exotic.
Alliance for shared purpose
- antebellumBefore a war's start
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
- bayouMarshy, slow-moving waterway
- creoleNativized pidgin tongue
magnolia · peach · bourbon · bluegrass · banjo · crawfish · gumbo · soul-food
First to explore territory
- settlersThose who establish homes
- homesteadFamily farm and dwelling
- expansionIncrease in scope
- territoryLand under jurisdiction
outpost · borderland · unexplored · trailblazer · conquest · colonization · prairie · wilderness
Tropical grassland, sparse trees
- safariWildlife observation journey
- veldtAfrican open grassland
- acaciaThorny warm-climate shrub
- baobabBulbous African tree species
bushveld · cape · outback · wilderness · fauna · flora · lemurs · pyramids
Broad, level grasslands
- steppeTreeless Eurasian grassland
- highlandsElevated, hilly land areas
- lowlandsLow-elevation flat terrain
- plateauFlat highland area
basin · peninsula · archipelago · cape · hemisphere · meridian · latitude · subtropics
confederacy
Alliance for shared purpose
- antebellumBefore a war's start
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
- bayouMarshy, slow-moving waterway
creole · magnolia · peach · bourbon · bluegrass · banjo · crawfish · gumbo · soul-food · blues
pioneers
First to explore territory
territory · outpost · borderland · unexplored · trailblazer · conquest · colonization · prairie · wilderness · cattle
savanna
Tropical grassland, sparse trees
baobab · bushveld · cape · outback · wilderness · fauna · flora · lemurs · pyramids · delta
plains
Broad, level grasslands
- steppeTreeless Eurasian grassland
- highlandsElevated, hilly land areas
- lowlandsLow-elevation flat terrain
plateau · basin · peninsula · archipelago · cape · hemisphere · meridian · latitude · subtropics · temperate
equator
Midpoint circle of rotation
- rainforestWet tropical woodland ecosystem
- jungleDense tropical forest
- palmHand's flat interior
humidity · monsoon · banana · mango · papaya · coconut · hibiscus · parrot · toucan · typhoon