borderland

In many respects, these remote and geopolitically volatile borderlands might seem like an unlikely place to seek solutions for the crisis of travel in the covid era.
In East Africa, mountain gorillas and a new paradigm for wildlife travel|Henry Wismayer|April 23, 2021|Washington Post
For people living in borderlands, those emotions are often negative.
How border walls trick the human brain and psyche|Jessica Wapner|October 2, 2020|Popular-Science
This borderland—the interface of human activity and wild habitat—is the most dangerous region of all for bears.
What It Takes to Kill a Grizzly Bear|Doug Peacock|November 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But as the excellent blog Borderland Beat says, “Remember this is Mexico and anything can happen.”
Could El Chapo Go Free?|Michael Daly|November 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Perhaps he also hopes he can keep Ukraine as a borderland instead of having it join NATO.
A Ukrainian-American Watches Putin from Kiev and Wonders What’s Next for Ukraine|Roman Skaskiw|March 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
When the latest Russian aggression ends, Ukraine will still be a borderland caught between East and West.
Caught Between Empires, Ukraine Can’t Rely on the West for its Independence|Roman Skaskiw|March 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Ukraine needs to embrace its historic role, not to mention its strategic reality, as a borderland.
Caught Between Empires, Ukraine Can’t Rely on the West for its Independence|Roman Skaskiw|March 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The feeble loyalty of the native regiments at Lucknow sufficed to keep all the borderland of Nepaul quiet for nearly two months.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
This high lonely butte stands on the borderland between the country of the Pawnees and the country of the Dakotas.
Prairie Smoke (Second Edition, Revised)|Melvin Randolph Gilmore
He felt that he had reached the land—or at least the borderland—of Bohemia, that Ultima Thule of every young literary dream.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete|Albert Bigelow Paine
It rather occupies a kind of borderland between them, coming under the head of philanthropy.
Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of Matthew|John Monro Gibson
But even in this borderland He cannot be hid; and when the sick and needy throng around Him, He cannot turn away from them.
Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of Matthew|John Monro Gibson

British Dictionary definitions for borderland

borderland

/ (ˈbɔːdəˌlænd) /

noun

land located on or near a frontier or boundary

an indeterminate regionthe borderland between intellect and intelligence

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