Northern Territories

plural noun

1. a former British protectorate in W Africa; now a part of N Ghana.

Northern Territories

plural noun

1. a former British protectorate in W Africa, established in 1897; attached to the Gold Coast in 1901; now constitutes the Northern Region of Ghana (since 1957)

Example Sentences

As a young father, Craig moved his family to the Northern Territories of Australia, where he wrangled “scrub bulls and buffalo” that had escaped from herds and needed to be sent to market.

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In Nunavut, one of Canada's three northern territories, the majority-Inuit population speak Inuktitut.

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"We were practicing the street parties and the haka just to be sure that she was properly welcome to the northern territories," he added.

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The relocations fit a pattern of often-violent demands that ethnic minorities adopt the state language of Mandarin and pledge their fealty to the ruling Communist Party in western and northern territories that include millions of Tibetan, Xinjiang Uyghur, Mongolian and other minorities.

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Hunting polar bears, which mostly live in Arctic regions, is legal in Canada's northern territories.

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