Country vs. Land — What's the Difference?

A country is a distinct territorial body or political entity (i.e. a nation).

Land is the solid surface of Earth that is not permanently submerged in water. The vast majority of human activity throughout history has occurred in land areas that support agriculture, habitat, and various natural resources.

A nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory

A state of Germany or Austria.

Districts and small settlements outside large urban areas or the capital

Put (someone or something) on land from a boat

An area or region with regard to its physical features

Come down through the air and rest on the ground or another surface

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Cause someone to be in (a difficult situation)

A nation or state.

Inflict (a blow) on someone

The territory of a nation or state; land.

The solid ground of the earth.

The people of a nation or state; populace

Ground or soil

The land of a person's birth or citizenship

A topographically or functionally distinct tract

A region, territory, or large tract of land distinguishable by features of topography, biology, or culture

A nation; a country.

An area or expanse outside cities and towns; a rural area

The people of a nation, district, or region.

The people of a district who are eligible for jury service.

Lands Territorial possessions or property.

A jury.

Public or private landed property; real estate.

(Informal) Country music.

(Law) The solid material of the earth as well as the natural and manmade things attached to it and the rights and interests associated with it.

Of, relating to, or typical of the country

An agricultural or farming area

Of or relating to country music.

Farming considered as a way of life.

(chiefly British) An area of land; a district, region.

An area or realm

A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members of the same race, speakers of the same language etc., or associated with a given person, occupation, species etc.

The raised portion of a grooved surface, as on a phonograph record.

The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area; a sovereign state.

To bring to and unload on land

A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.

To set (a vehicle) down on land or another surface

Ellipsis of country music

(Informal) To cause to arrive in a place or condition

(mining) The rock through which a vein runs.

To catch and pull in (a fish)

From or in the countryside or connected with it.

(Informal) To win; secure

Of or connected to country music.

(Informal) To deliver

Originating in India rather than being imported from Europe or elsewhere.

To come to shore

A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region of one's birth, permanent residence, or citizenship.

To disembark

Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town.

To descend toward and settle onto the ground or another surface

The inhabitants or people of a state or a region; the populace; the public. Hence: (a) One's constituents. (b) The whole body of the electors of state; as, to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country.

(Informal) To arrive in a place or condition

A jury, as representing the citizens of a country.

To come to rest in a certain way or place

The rock through which a vein runs.

The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.

Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city.

Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected.

Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, country manners.

A country or region.

Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country.

A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.

The territory occupied by a nation;

The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.

A politically organized body of people under a single government;

Realm, domain.

The people who live in a nation or country;

(agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.

An area outside of cities and towns;

A shock or fright.

A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography);

(electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.

On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.

(travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.

(obsolete) The ground or floor.

(nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.

In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.

(ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.

A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.

Lant; urine

(intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.

(dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.

(intransitive) To come into rest.

(intransitive) To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.

(transitive) To bring to land.

To capture or arrest.

(transitive) To acquire; to secure.

To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score

(transitive) (of a blow) To deliver.

(intransitive) (of a punch) To connect

(intransitive) To go down well with an audience.

Urine. See Lant.

The solid part of the surface of the earth; - opposed to water as constituting a part of such surface, especially to oceans and seas; as, to sight land after a long voyage.

Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract.

Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet land; good or bad land.

The inhabitants of a nation or people.

The mainland, in distinction from islands.

The ground or floor.

The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing.

Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, etc., and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc., or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc.; real estate.

The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; - called also landing.

In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun between the grooves.

To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark.

To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish.

To set down after conveying; to cause to fall, alight, or reach; to bring to the end of a course; as, he landed the quoit near the stake; to be thrown from a horse and landed in the mud; to land one in difficulties or mistakes.

To pilot (an airplane) from the air onto the land; as, to land the plane on a highway.

To come to the end of a course; to arrive at a destination, literally or figuratively; as, he landed in trouble; after hithchiking for a week, he landed in Los Angeles.

To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark.

To reach and come to rest on land after having been in the air; as, the arrow landed in a flower bed; the golf ball landed in a sand trap; our airplane landed in Washington.

The land on which real estate is located;

Material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use);

The solid part of the earth's surface;

Territory over which rule or control is exercised;

The territory occupied by a nation;

A domain in which something is dominant;

Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use;

The people who live in a nation or country;

A politically organized body of people under a single government;

United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one-step photographic process (1909-1991)

Working the land as an occupation or way of life;

Reach or come to rest;

Cause to come to the ground;

Bring into a different state;

Bring ashore;

Deliver (a blow);

Arrive on shore;

Shoot at and force to come down;

Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land;

Operating or living or growing in water;