Territory may refer to:
- Territory (country subdivision), a non-sovereign geographic region
- States and territories of Australia, administrative subdivisions of Australia
- British Overseas Territories
- Provinces and territories of Canada, administrative subdivisions of Canada with fewer powers of self-government than provinces
- Overseas territory (France)
- Territoire de Belfort, a French département that retains its historical name from 1871–1919
- Union Territory, administrative subdivisions in India
- Territories of the United States
- Unorganized territory (in USA and Canada)
- Sales territory
- Territorial tax systems (vs. residency based or hybrid)
- Territoriality (nonverbal communication), how people use space to communicate ownership/occupancy of areas and possessions
Famous quotes containing the word territory:
“When the excessively shy force themselves to be forward, they are frequently surprisingly unsubtle and overdirect and even rude: they have entered an extreme region beyond their normal personality, an area of social crime where gradations don’t count; unavailable to them are the instincts and taboos that booming extroverts, who know the territory of self-advancement far better, can rely on.”
—Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)
“Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can’t stand it. I been there before.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)