Territory vs. State — What's the Difference?

A territory is an administrative division, usually an area that is under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state. In most countries, a territory is an organized division of an area that is controlled by a country but is not formally developed into, or incorporated into, a political unit of the country that is of equal status to other political units that may often be referred to by words such as "provinces" or "regions" or "states".

A condition or mode of being, as with regard to circumstances

An area of land; a region.

A condition of being in a stage or form, as of structure, growth, or development

The land and waters under the jurisdiction of a government.

A mental or emotional condition

A political subdivision of a country.

(Informal) A condition of excitement or distress

A geographic region, such as a colonial possession, that is dependent on an external government

Social position or rank.

A subdivision of the United States that is not a state and is administered by an appointed or elected governor and elected legislature.

(Physics) The condition of a physical system with regard to phase, form, composition, or structure

A similarly organized political subdivision of Canada or Australia.

Ceremony; pomp

An area for which a person is responsible as a representative or agent

The supreme public power within a sovereign political entity

(Sports)The area of a field defended by a specified team

The sphere of supreme civil power within a given polity

(Biology)An area occupied by a single animal, mating pair, or group and often vigorously defended against intruders, especially those of the same species.

A specific kind of government

A sphere of action or interest; a province.

A body politic, especially one constituting a nation

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

One of the more or less internally autonomous territorial and political units composing a federation under a sovereign government

(Canada) One of three of Canada's federated entities, located in the country's Arctic, with fewer powers than a province and created by an act of Parliament rather than by the Constitution: Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.

Of or relating to a body politic or to an internally autonomous territorial or political unit constituting a federation under one government

(Australia) One of three of Australia's federated entities, located in the country's north and southeast, with fewer powers than a state and created by an act of Parliament rather than by the Constitution: Northern Territory, Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay Territory.

Owned and operated by a state

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.

To set forth in words; declare.

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

A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.

The part of the playing field or board over which a player or team has control.

(physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.

A geographic area that a person or organization is responsible for in the course of work.

A mess; disorder.

A location or logical space which someone owns or controls.

(computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.

A market segment or scope of professional practice over which an organization or type of practitioner has exclusive rights.

(computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.

An area of subject matter, knowledge, or experience.

(computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.

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

(sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.

The extent of land belonging to, or under the dominion of, a prince, state, or other form of government; often, a tract of land lying at a distance from the parent country or from the seat of government; as, the territory of a State; the territories of the East India Company.

(obsolete) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.

In the United States, a portion of the country not included within the limits of any State, and not yet admitted as a State into the Union, but organized with a separate legislature, under a Territorial governor and other officers appointed by the President and Senate of the United States. In Canada, a similarly organized portion of the country not yet formed into a Province.

High social standing or circumstance.

A region marked off for administrative or other purposes

Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.

An area of knowledge or interest;

Rank; condition; quality.

The geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state;

Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.

A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.

(obsolete) A great person, a dignitary; a lord or prince.

(obsolete) Estate, possession.

A polity.

Any sovereign polity; a national or city-state government.

A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States, Mexico, Nigeria, or India.

(obsolete) A form of government other than a monarchy.

(anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.

An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.

The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that do not change over time.

(transitive) To declare to be a fact.

(transitive) To make known.

(obsolete) Stately.

The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor.

Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.

Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.

A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.

Estate; possession.

A person of high rank.

The principal persons in a government.

The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland.

A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic.

A political body, or body politic; the whole body of people who are united under one government, whatever may be the form of the government; a nation.

In the United States, one of the commonwealths, or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stand in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealths, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited.

Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.

A statement; also, a document containing a statement.

Stately.

Belonging to the state, or body politic; public.

To set; to settle; to establish.

To express the particulars of; to set down in detail or in gross; to represent fully in words; to narrate; to recite; as, to state the facts of a case, one's opinion, etc.

The group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state;

The territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation;

A politically organized body of people under a single government;

The way something is with respect to its main attributes;

The federal department in the UnitedStates that sets and maintains foreign policies;

The territory occupied by a nation;

A state of depression or agitation;

(chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container);

Express in words;

Put before;

Indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.;