territorial jurisdiction

territorial jurisdiction
noun
: the sovereign jurisdiction that a state has over the land within its boundary limits, over its inland and territorial waters and to a reasonable extent over the airspace above and subsoil below in such land and waters, and over all persons and things within those areas subject to its control (as on its vessels on or aircraft over the high seas) — compare extraterritoriality

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