The western end of the runway is located on artificial land surrounded by sea.

They built with palm and wood on a high piece of land surrounded by vegetation.

It is situated in a tiny land surrounded by paddy field.

Sits in the middle of a section of private land surrounded by national forest.

But it is also a land surrounded by strong enemies.

A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural.

Originally it was an 'island' of slightly higher land surrounded by boggy country.

What's mystifying, for example, about a picture not revealing it was taken on land surrounded by water?

They are not comparable to Earth continents in the sense of dry land surrounded by sea, there being no water.

The intent is to prevent more fire in a sliver of land surrounded by high mountain walls.