geographical region vs territory

territory vs geographical region

geographical region and territory both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
geographical region	Yes	No	No	No
territory	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, territory is a hyponym of geographical region; that is, territory is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than geographical region:

geographical region: a demarcated area of the Earth
territory: the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state

Other hyponyms of geographical region include soil, colony, dependency, semidesert, narco-state, place, property, basin, catchment area, catchment basin, drainage area, drainage basin, river basin, watershed, environs, purlieu, geographical zone, zone, environment, environs, surround, surroundings, dust bowl, hemisphere, flashpoint, hot spot, hotspot, trouble spot, panhandle, country, rural area, sphere, sphere of influence, field, settlement, parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract, populated area, urban area, wild, wilderness, killing field, northern Europe, French region, Baltic Republic, Baltic State, Colony, Dar al-Islam, House of Islam, Dar al-harb, House of War.

geographical region (noun)	territory (noun)
a demarcated area of the Earth	an area of knowledge or interest
	a region marked off for administrative or other purposes
	the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state

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