Land
Land is sometimes used synonymously with country .
Land can also be for "a land of a people ", particularly in the absence of a state or government , which is rather implicated by the near-synonym country .
Land is the part of the Earth that is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water . See landform .
In economics , land is a factor of production . It consists of naturally occurring goods, such as soil and minerals, real estates , that are used in the production of other goods.
The terms motherland , fatherland , and homeland refer to someone's country of affiliation, birth or ancestral origin.
Bundesland (plural : Bundesländer) is the name for the states of Germany and the states of Austria .
Land is a place in Norway .
Historically the parts of the Scandinavian kingdoms were called lands of the respective peoples , as in for instance Jutland (the land of the Jutes ), Gotland (the land of the Goths ), or the historical lands of Sweden and lands of Denmark .
To land, i.e. the landing , is the final part of a flight or ocean voyage .
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