the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
express in words
the way something is with respect to its main attributes
the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line
the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
a politically organized body of people under a single government
situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the south
in a southern direction
the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
