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Definition of Territories

Territories
Territory Ter"ri*to*ry, n.; pl. Territories. [L. territorium, from terra the earth: cf. F. territoire. See Terrace.] 1. A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district. He looked, and saw wide territory spread Before him -- towns, and rural works between. --Milton. 2. The extent of land belonging to, or under the dominion of, a prince, state, or other form of government; often, a tract of land lying at a distance from the parent country or from the seat of government; as, the territory of a State; the territories of the East India Company. 3. In the United States, a portion of the country not included within the limits of any State, and not yet admitted as a State into the Union, but organized with a separate legislature, under a Territorial governor and other officers appointed by the President and Senate of the United States. In Canada, a similarly organized portion of the country not yet formed into a Province.

Meaning of Territories from wikipedia

- Autonomous Regions of Portugal. The fourteen British Overseas Territories are dependent territories of the British Crown with varying degrees of self-governance...
- (formerly called the British North America Act, 1867), whereas territories are federal territories whose governments are creatures of statute with powers delegated...
- Territories of the United States are sub-national administrative divisions and dependent territories overseen by the federal government of the United States...
- named the North-West Territories. The name was changed to the present Northwest Territories in 1906. Since 1870, the territory has been divided four...
- states of India, which have their own governments, union territories are federal territories governed, in part or in whole, directly by the Central Government...
- British Overseas Territories (BOTs) or alternatively referred to as the United Kingdom Overseas Territories (UKOTs) are the fourteen territories with a constitutional...
- comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, for a total of 36 subnational entities. The states and union territories are further subdivided into 800...
- federal territories, out of which three are internal territories: the Australian Capital Territory, the Jervis Bay Territory, and the Northern Territory on...
- applied to it; the other territories are unincorporated, meaning the Constitution does not fully apply to them. Ten territories (the Minor Outlying Islands...
- Kowloon has remained statutorily part of the New Territories instead of Kowloon. The New Territories were leased from Qing China by the United Kingdom...