having a common boundary or edge; touching; "abutting lots"; "adjoining rooms"; "Rhode Island has two bordering states; Massachusetts and Conncecticut"; "the side of Germany conterminous with France"; "Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho"; "neighboring cities"
area around or near (someone, something); neighborhood, vicinity, environs, region: Kadıköy ve yöresi Kadıköy and the places near it. Sarıyer yöresinde in the vicinity of Sarıyer. Yöresini sardılar. They surrounded him