a politically organized body of people under a single government | a measuring instrument for measuring altitude of heavenly bodies |
the people who live in a nation or country | the area enclosed by two perpendicular radii of a circle |
the territory occupied by a nation | any of the four areas into which a plane is divided by two orthogonal coordinate axes |
an area outside of cities and towns | a quarter of the circumference of a circle |
a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography) | |