Synonyms of borderlands

borderlands

noun

plural of borderland

as in borders

a region along the dividing line between two countries

I grew up on the borderland, so I speak both languages

Synonyms & Similar Words

• borders
• frontiers
• marches
• no-man's-lands

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of borderlands

Trail cameras captured new images of Cinco the jaguar, one of five jaguars known to have roamed southern Arizona's borderlands. — Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 5 Sep. 2026

No country has marshaled those efforts like China, where the government sees Tibet, and its Himalayan borderlands, as critical to its national and energy security. — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026

In borderlands the ground is always disturbed by history, and south-eastern Poland is no exception. — Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2026

American patriotism; native, Spanish and Mexican roots On a Sunday afternoon in early May, troupes of dancers in San Elizario, Texas, turned the town plaza into a stage for a reenactment of 500 years of borderlands history. — Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 28 June 2026

And in Istria, especially Croatian Istria but also Dubrovnik and across the borderlands of Slovenia and northeastern Italy, Malvasia takes a very different form. — Layne Randolph, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026

Residents of borderlands are by definition bilingual; their cultures mixed and distinctive. — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 24 June 2026

The final Palme d’Or contender to play in Cannes’ 2006 edition last Friday, Grisebach’s borderlands drama kept the wind in the sales of the main competition right up to the end, and went on to win the Jury Prize. — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 28 May 2026

The series project Burning Witches, written by Martina Babišová and Věra Starečková and produced by Dagmar Sedláčková, is set in the 17th century in the Bohemian-Polish borderlands. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 6 May 2026