Territory

Latin territorium, from terra the earth

Full definition of territory

(plural territories)

A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district.
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.

2013-08-03, Boundary problems, Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economistsâ€™ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.

(zoology) An area that an animal of a particular species consistently defends against its conspecifics.

2011, October 1, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland, Scotland had the territory and the momentum, forcing England into almost twice as many tackles and rattling them repeatedly at set-pieces.
12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental DriftThe matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory thatâ€™s already been settled.