Meanings of contiguous territory in English

Mitchell said the United States wants "a viable, independent Palestinian state with a contiguous territory".

They were contiguous territory.

These three tribes, speaking dialects of the same stock language, inhabiting contiguous territory, formed a league for offensive and defensive purposes.

Palestinians regard settlements as a major obstacle to building a sought-after state in contiguous territory in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Hitherto annexation has been confined to contiguous territory, except in the case of Alaska, separated only by narrow stretches of sea and land.

In these, sovereign rights over a large contiguous territory, originally delegated to an administrative officer, had been transformed into a practically independent power.

The United States of America had scarcely become a nation when it began to absorb contiguous territory and exert a strong attraction on Cuba.

Although New England and New York were contiguous territories, a wide difference existed between their social conditions.

Our contiguous territories have been acquired by compulsion, whether of war, of purchase, of occupation, or of exchange.