Country vs. Territory
Difference Between Country and Territory
Countrynoun
(chiefly British) An area of land; a district, region.
Territorynoun
A large extent or tract of land; for example a region, country or district.
Countrynoun
A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members of the same race, language speakers etc., or associated with a given person, occupation, species etc.
Territorynoun
(Canada) One of three of Canada's federated entities, located in the country's Arctic, with fewer powers than a province and created by an act of Parliament rather than by the Constitution: Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.
Countrynoun
The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area.
Territorynoun
A geographic area under control of a single governing entity such as state or municipality; an area whose borders are determined by the scope of political power rather than solely by natural features such as rivers and ridges.
Countrynoun
(usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.
Territorynoun
(ecology) An area that an animal of a particular species consistently defends against its conspecifics.
Countrynoun
ellipsis of country music
Territorynoun
The part of the playing field or board over which a player or team has control.
Countrynoun
(mining) The rock through which a vein runs.
Territorynoun
A geographic area that a person or organization is responsible for in the course of work.
Countrynoun
The female genitalia, especially the vagina.
Territorynoun
A location or logical space which someone owns or controls.
Countryadjective
From or in the countryside or connected with it.
Territorynoun
A market segment or scope of professional practice over which an organization or type of practitioner has exclusive rights.
Countryadjective
Of or connected to country music.
Territorynoun
An area of subject matter, knowledge, or experience.
Countrynoun
the territory occupied by a nation;
he returned to the land of his birthhe visited several European countriesTerritorynoun
a region marked off for administrative or other purposes
Countrynoun
a politically organized body of people under a single government;
the state has elected a new presidentAfrican nationsstudents who had come to the nation's capitolthe country's largest manufactureran industrialized landTerritorynoun
an area of knowledge or interest;
his questions covered a lot of territoryCountrynoun
the people who live in a nation or country;
a statement that sums up the nation's moodthe news was announced to the nationthe whole country worshipped himTerritorynoun
the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state;
American troops were stationed on Japanese soilCountrynoun
an area outside of cities and towns;
his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the countryCountrynoun
a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography);
it was a mountainous areaBible country
