territorially

[Meja]

Hello,

If I want to say that a country covers a large area, can I say that it is a "territorially large country"?

 

[Rover_KE]

I suppose you could, but it doesn't sound very colloquial to me.

 

[jutfrank]

It's not too bad but there must be more elegant ways of putting it.

What's wrong with a large territory?

 

[Meja]

It's not too bad but there must be more elegant ways of putting it.

What's wrong with a large territory?

I want "country" to be the main word in the phrase, and "large territory" should somehow modify that noun.
Did you mean: "a country with a large territory"?

 

[Meja]

If by this expression you mean to include 'the territorial waters' of the country, I suspect you can get away with it. Otherwise, in 3-D space how else can a country be large?

I don't know if it can be large in any other way and I guess it can't be, so it seems unnecessary to mention 'territorial' at all. I was translating something from my native language and we do use these words together in my language, so I thought it may sound closer to the original if I kept both words.

 

[Skrej]

Perhaps you could say it's a geographically large country.

 

[Tdol]

I think simply a large country would do.

 

[jutfrank]

When applied to cities, the word large refers to population more often than to size of area.

However, that's not the case with countries.

 

[SoothingDave]

Large by area, as opposed to large by population.