territorial boundaries
Lines between nations
Territorial boundaries are the borders that define where one entity's control ends and another's begins.
Most often applied to nations, states, or administrative regions, the term also extends to animals defending their range and to metaphorical limits on authority or responsibility: The department heads argued over territorial boundaries.
The river marks the territorial boundary between the two countries.
- demarcationFormal boundary setting
- borderOuter edge or limit
- border crossingTransit between sovereign territories
- fence lineEdge marked by posts
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
line · river · treaty · treaty rights · mountain range · self-determination · nation-state · edge · enclave · continental divide · buffer zone · neutral zone · watershed · topography · ancestral lands · indigenous land · barbed wire · contested
- settlementvillages, towns, urban development, population growth, wells
- Arctic cartographymapping, cartography, survey maps, topo maps, geological surveys
- Inuit lawelder councils, community justice, dispute resolution, conflict mediation, consensus building
- Old Westcowboy, cowboys, cowgirl, sheriff, sheriffs
- ancient historical atlasesworld maps, Roman Empire, ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, ancient civilizations
- indigenous landsancestral lands, ancestral territories, native land, traditional territories, native lands
territorial boundariesopen borders
Unregulated international passage
freedom of movement · borderlessness · international waters · commons · shared space
territorial boundariespolitical union
Merged sovereign entities
annexation · merger · integration · consolidation · federation