国土 (Kokudo) is a Japanese noun meaning “country, territory, domain, realm”.
Meanings
- nouncountry; territory; domain; realm
Examples
国土の８割近くが山です。
Nearly 80 percent of the land is mountains.
アメリカは国土が広く、人々はよく移動する。
America is a large country and its people are mobile.
日本のように国土の狭い国では、ゴルフは土地の無駄遣いだ。
Golf is a waste of land in such a small country as Japan.
Sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR).