territorial growth
Borders pushing outward
Territorial growth is the expansion of land under a nation's or entity's control.
The term typically appears in historical contexts describing how countries enlarged their borders through conquest, purchase, treaty, or colonization: the territorial growth of the United States through the Louisiana Purchase, Roman territorial growth across the Mediterranean.
- annexationAbsorbing territory into jurisdiction
- land acquisitionGaining ownership of terrain
- Louisiana Purchase1803 territorial acquisition
- land rushMass race for territory
- claimStatement of ownership or truth
settle · colonization · indigenous rights · urbanization · migration · border disputes · land grab · land grabs · manifest destiny · living space · sovereignty · treaties · deforestation · imperialism · sphere of influence · frontier · conquest · habitat loss
territorial growthsecession
Formal withdrawal from union
dismemberment · partition · decolonization · disintegration · balkanization
territorial growthisolationism
Policy avoiding foreign alliances
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