homeland(n = noun.location) country of origin, fatherland, mother country, motherland, native land - the country where you were born;
is a kind of country, land, state
has particulars: old country

homeland, n.
1 one's native land.
2 an area in S. Africa reserved for a particular African people (the official name for a Bantustan).

basque homeland and freedom, homeland security, office of homeland security