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a region marked off for administrative or other purposes

 
 
Kinds of ...: district, territory
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  • 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

 
... is a Kind of: district, territory
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  • region — a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth

 
 

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