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:

    “I have found that anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.”
    —Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

    “Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.”
    —Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924)