The phrase "a contested area" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a region or space that is disputed or claimed by multiple parties, often in a political or territorial context.
Example: "The border between the two countries has long been a contested area, leading to ongoing tensions and negotiations."
Alternatives: "a disputed region" or "a contested zone".
The Soviet Embassy, in a contested area near the airport, has come under fire.
To say that school reforms are a contested area is something of an understatement.
Kiir Adem lies in a contested area known as Mile 14, claimed by both Khartoum and Juba.
The Baltic sea has also become a contested area as Russian submarines and aircraft test western reactions.
She had left — she had lost count of how many days ago — Aleppo's Ashrafieh neighborhood, a contested area where airstrikes and clashes are common with her four sons.
Almost nothing has been done to prepare for a secondary referendum to decide the fate of Abyei, a contested area of important oil deposits.
The book is more a polemic than a balanced investigation of a hotly contested area; but for anyone considering these natural parenting practices, it is an eye-opening and worthy read.
Sejong is in Chungcheong, a hotly contested area, which a successful presidential candidate must win.Two of Miss Park's supporters in the assembly, Hong Sa-duk and Lee Sung-hun, have accused Mr Lee's office of dirty tricks, saying they have been the targets of a smear campaign.
This is a bitterly contested area, for a number of reasons, not least that many people are sceptical about how useful it will be to gather more such data, when most of the attacks of the past decade succeeded despite the security agencies being aware of concerns about the perpetrators' potential for terrorism.
What I vividly recall, however, was that this, so I thought, very careful and cautious senator began our chat by talking about stories I had written a few years earlier, about the American massacre in March , 1968 of more than five hundred Vietnamese women, old men, children, and babies at My Lai, a village in a hotly contested area of South Vietnam.
By championing infertility treatment, which can cost up to $400 a day for drug treatment and up to $10,000 for in vitro fertilization, Democrats and Republicans stand to gain an important ally in a politically contested area.
