The lordships were geographically compact and jurisdictionally separate one from another, and their privileges differentiated them from English lordships.

Although Orangeville dominates in terms of population, in area it is very small and geographically compact.

For decades, voting districts had to be geographically compact with roughly equal numbers of residents.

The state and the Justice Department had argued that the area represented a community of interests and was geographically compact.

New Brunswick is geographically compact, with a much smaller population than Newark.

It is an ethnically diverse and geographically compact area.

Time spent spontaneously shaking hands or kissing babies, long outmoded in large states like California, has been driven to extinction even in this geographically compact state by the real campaign: raising money for a barrage of television ads.

Mr. Turner said the Assembly plan "unnecessarily splits the geographically compact Hispanic population between two Assembly districts."

Additionally there is a desire to keep locations geographically compact so that any future time zone changes do not split locations into different time zones.

She suggested that minority communities in the Sixth through Ninth Senate districts, which are geographically compact and contiguous, could constitute a majority in a redrawn district.