Northern Territories

Northern Territories may refer to several geographic locations:

  • Northern Territories (北方領土, Hoppō Ryōdo?), a term used by the Japanese to refer to the territory disputed with Russia. See Kuril Islands dispute
  • Historical name of part of Ghana, a former British Empire protectorate, itself divided into the Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions of modern Ghana.

It may informally refer to:

  • Northern Territories of Canada, the Yukon Territory, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.
  • Northern territories of Israel, the Northern District and the Golan Heights.

Famous quotes containing the words northern and/or territories:

    “Warmest climes but nurse the cruelest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a world into which I make occasional and transient forays only, and my patriotism and allegiance to the state into whose territories I seem to retreat are those of a moss-trooper.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)