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Land (plural Länder , rarely Lande ; old high German lant ) stands for:
- Part of the earth's surface not covered by water, the land area
- rural, agricultural area in contrast to the city, also rural area
- delimitable region determined by common natural features, including land, landscape
- independent, (state) constituted political entity, a state
- historical legal community with common sovereign, see country (historical)
- in some federal states the term for a member state
- Territory of a constituted state, the national territory
- a piece of land owned, see real estate
- depending on the context, also property
- depending on the context, also soil (see soil (soil science) )
- depending on the context, also landscape
- as a suffix in a district name for the district surrounding or adjacent to another district
- as a suffix in a community name for the community surrounding or adjacent to another community
special:
- Country (GDR) , countries in the Soviet occupation zone and the German Democratic Republic 1945–1958
- Country (Germany) , member states of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Country (Austria) , member states of the Republic of Austria
- Land (Kingdom of the Netherlands) , autonomous land within the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Country , proper geographical names:
- Land Bay , bay on the Ruppert coast of Marie-Byrd-Land, Antarctica
- Land Glacier , glacier in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica
Country is the family name of the following people:
- Charles Henry Land (1847–1922), dentist and inventor of the jacket crown
- Edwin Herbert Land (1909–1991), American physicist
- Emory S. Land (1879–1971), Vice Admiral in the United States Navy
- Erik Land (* 1990), German basketball player
- Franz Land , German politician (NSDAP)
- Greg Land (born around 1965), American comic artist
- Harold Land (1928–2001), American jazz tenor saxophonist and composer
- Jan Pieter Nicolaas Land (1834–1897), Dutch orientalist and philosopher
- Karl-Heinz Land (* 1962), German entrepreneur
- Kilian Land (* 1990), German actor
- Kim Land (* 1994), German handball player
- Michael Land (* 1961), American composer and musician
- Peter Land (* 1966), Danish artist
- Rainer Land (* 1952), Berlin social scientist
- Robert Land (* 1887 as Robert Liebmann; † 1943), Austrian-Czech film director
- Robert Land (engineer) (1857–1899), German civil engineer
- Ulrich Land (* 1956), German author and radio play author
- Walter Land (* 1938), German transplant doctor (surgeon)
- Winifred Land , English table tennis player
- Wolfgang Land (* 1953), German automobile racing driver
Country , other (partly English, plural lands ):
- data-carrying increase on a compact disc , see compact disc # structure of a CD
- Method of DoS attack on a server via TCP, see Land attack
- Land Motorsport , German motorsport team
- D'Lëtzebuerger Land , Luxembourg weekly newspaper
- Title of the German translation of a multi-volume Korean family saga by Pak Kyongni
See also:
- List of all Wikipedia articles whose title begins with country
- List of all Wikipedia articles whose title contains country
Wiktionary: Country - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wikiquote: Country - Quotes
