The phrase "a contested area of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a subject or field that is subject to disagreement or debate among different parties or groups.
Example: "The climate change debate is a contested area of scientific research, with various theories and opinions being put forward."
Alternatives: "a disputed field of" or "a controversial domain of".
Almost nothing has been done to prepare for a secondary referendum to decide the fate of Abyei, a contested area of important oil deposits.
His critics, however, note that he is a settler who lives in the Gush Etzion bloc south of Jerusalem, a contested area of the West Bank that Israel intends to keep under any agreement with the Palestinians.
One woman, a dentist who supports the opposition, said she recently helped distribute plates of schwarma, a local grilled meat dish, to 900 displaced people in five schools near a contested area of southwest Aleppo.
Mr. Obama, members of the Likud Party believe, returned the favor during the Israeli election when Jeffrey Goldberg, an American journalist who writes frequently about Israel, reported that the president had disparaged Mr. Netanyahu after the Israeli government announced plans for settlements in a contested area of the West Bank known as E1.
But what I did get to experience, including one city set in a contested area of the game occupied by both Greeks and Egyptians, felt finished.
The article identifies the commonalities and discrepancies between the translation policies of the EU and the IFRS Foundation, and analyses the translation as a contested area of expertise involving multiple, recurrently changing constituents.
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.
Before the Biden visit, Mr. Netanyahu asked Mayor Barkat to delay a plan to demolish some Palestinian homes to build a new complex in Silwan, a hotly contested area of East Jerusalem.
JERUSALEM — Jerusalem's city hall advanced rezoning and development plans on Monday for a hotly contested area of East Jerusalem, another example of an awkwardly timed, seemingly bureaucratic Israeli maneuver that could upset fragile peace efforts.
JERUSALEM — Israel has published plans for some 1,000 new housing units in a hotly contested area of Jerusalem, advancing the approval process at a delicate time when the United States is pressing Israel to renew a freeze in settlement construction and get stalled peace negotiations with the Palestinians back on track.
On July 7, too, British officials chose to announce the replacement of their forces in Sangin, a hotly contested area of Afghanistan, by the U.S. Marines.
