borderland n : district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area; "the Welsh marches between England and Wales" [syn: border district, march, marchland]

English

Noun

1. land near a border; marches

Borderland may refer to:

• A geographical space or zone around a territorial border
• Borderland (Enterprise episode), a fourth-season episode of the science fiction series Star Trek: Enterprise
• Borderland (film), a 2007 film starring Brian Presley
• The Borderland Series, a series of anthologies and novels edited by Terri Windling
• "Borderland", the originally-published title of Australian poet Henry Lawson's popular poem, Up The Country.
• Borderlands (video game), a videogame developed by 2K Games.

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