Northern Territories

American  

plural noun

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

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Northern Territories British  

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)

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Northern Territories

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.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025

A video shared on social media shows a 'fiernado' sweeping through Tennant creek in Australia's Northern Territories.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2023

The islands are known in Russia as the Kurils and in Japan as the Northern Territories.

From Reuters ● Jan. 3, 2023

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said the exercises took place on two of four disputed islands in what Tokyo calls the Northern Territories, and Russia calls the Kuril Islands.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 7, 2022

Auntie Venus had been for almost half a century a vital nursing presence across a swath of the Northern Territories in Canada.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan