take over, assume, inherit / hand over, pass on

area, district, particular geographic region

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

British Indian Ocean Territory (an archipelago and overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the Indian Ocean)

British Antarctic Territory (an overseas territory in the Antarctic administered by the United Kingdom, and also including the South Orkney Islands and South Shetland Islands)

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

jurisdiction / dominion / territory / fief / reign

territory of a country

of a territory, belonging to a country