district, territory

a region marked off for administrative or other purposes

• administrative district, administrative division, territorial division — a district defined for administrative purposes
• borderland, border district, march, marchland — district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area
• city district — a district of a town or city
• congressional district — a territorial division of a state; entitled to elect one member to the United States House of Representatives
• development — a district that has been developed to serve some purpose
• enclave — an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it
• residential district, residential area, community — a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences
• goldfield — a district where gold is mined
• jurisdiction — in law; the territory within which power can be exercised
• protectorate, associated state — a state or territory partly controlled by (but not a possession of) a stronger state but autonomous in internal affairs; protectorates are established by treaty
• Louisiana Purchase — territory in western United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million; extends from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada
• Palatinate, Pfalz — a territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the counts palatine
• Athos, Mount Athos — an autonomous area in northeastern Greece that is the site of several Greek Orthodox monasteries founded in the tenth century
• Attica — the territory of Athens in ancient Greece
• Boeotia — a district of ancient Greece northwest of Athens
• Acadia — the French-speaking part of the Canadian Maritime Provinces
• Northwest Territories — a territory in northwestern Canada
• Yukon, Yukon Territory — a territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s
• Northern Territory — a territory in north central Australia
• Acre — a territory of western Brazil bordering on Bolivia and Peru
• Lake District, Lakeland — a popular tourist area in northwestern England including England's largest lake and highest mountain
• Galloway — a district in southwestern Scotland
• Lothian Region — a district in southeast central Scotland (south side of the Firth of Forth) and the location of Edinburgh
• East Malaysia — the part of Malaysia that is on the island of Borneo
• Sabah, North Borneo — a region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo
• Sarawak — a region of Malaysia on northwestern Borneo
• West Malaysia — the region of Malaysia on the Malay Peninsula
• Natal — a region of eastern South Africa on the Indian Ocean
• American Samoa, Eastern Samoa, AS — a United States territory on the eastern part of the island of Samoa
• Aragon — a region of northeastern Spain; a former kingdom that united with Castile in 1479 to form Spain (after the marriage of Ferdinand V and Isabella I)
• Castile, Castilla — a region of central Spain; a former kingdom that comprised most of modern Spain and united with Aragon to form Spain in 1479
• Catalonia — a region of northeastern Spain
• Kordofan — a mountainous province of central Sudan

• region — a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth