A territory is an area of land, sea, or space, belonging or connectedĀ to a particular country, person, or animal.
In international politics, a territory is usually a geographic area which has not been granted the powers of self-government, i.e. an area that is under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state.
A territorial dispute or boundary dispute is a disagreement over the possession or control of territories (land, water or airspace) between two or more political entities.
The Great Game was a rivalry between the 19th-century British and Russian empires over influence in Central Asia, primarily in Afghanistan, Persia, and Tibet. The colonial empire and great land power (heartland state) used military interventions and diplomatic negotiations to acquire and redefine territories in Central and South Asia. Russia conquered Turkestan, and Britain expanded and set the borders of British India. By the early 20th century, a line of independent states, tribes, and monarchies from the shore of the Caspian Sea to the Eastern Himalayas were made into protectorates and territories of the two empires.
Though the Great Game was marked by distrust, diplomatic intrigue, and regional wars, it never erupted into a full-scale war directly between Russian and British colonial forces. However, the two nations battled in the Crimean War from 1853 to 1856, which affected the Great Game. The Russian and British Empires also cooperated numerous times during the Great Game, including many treaties and the Afghan Boundary Commission.
This is a list of countries and territories of the world according to the total area covered by forests, based on data published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). In 2010, the world had 3.92Ā billionĀ hectares (ha) of tree cover, extending over 30% of its land area.
In 2020, the world had a total forest area of 4.06Ā billionĀ ha, which was 31Ā percent of the total land area. This area is equivalent to 0.52Ā ha perĀ person ā although forestsare not distributed equally among the world's peopleor geographically. The tropical domain has the largest proportion of the world's forests (45Ā percent), followed by the boreal, temperate and subtropical domains. More than half (54Ā percent) of the world's forests is in only five countries ā the Russian Federation (20.1%), Brazil (12.2%), Canada (8.6%), the United States of America (7.6%) and China (5.4%).
A territorial dispute or boundary dispute is a disagreement over the possession or control of territories (Airspace, land, and water) between two or more political entities.
The Anglo-French Wars (1109ā1815) were a series of conflicts between the territories of the Kingdom of England (and its successor state, the United Kingdom) and the Kingdom of France (succeeded by a republic). Their conflicts spanned from the High Middle Ages to the early modern period.
A territorial dispute or boundary dispute is a disagreement over the possession or control of territories (airspace, land, and water) between two or more political entities.