'span of land' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a specific area of land or terrain. Example: The farmer was impressed with the large span of land available for planting crops.
Ledford is spread across a 4 mile span of land along Route 45 between Carrier Mills and Harrisburg, with several roads branching off to the left and right of the highway.
For over six months now, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes have struggling to contain meth cleanup costs on the Flathead Indian Reservation, a span of land that stretches five counties and is home to 28,000 people in Western Montana.
And at stake were the oil and natural gas reserves of what Americans would soon be calling the "arc of instability," a vast span of lands extending from North Africa to the Chinese border.
Today, a visibly clean river flows between protected spans of land including state parks and private tracts.
When completed the development will span 240 hectares of land stretching 8km along the River Tay.
When completed the waterfront development will span 240 hectares of land stretching several miles along the River Tay.
For the landing to be successful, the 60 feet-wide span of the rocket landing legs must not only land within the 170 feet-wide barge deck, but would need to also deal with large ocean swell and GPS errors.
In addition, the damaged areas of each span were calculated according to the 'Inspection manual for the bridge (Minister of Land Infrastructure and Transport, Korea Infrastructure Safety and Technology Corporation 2012)'.
Although not especially large, the show spans vast swaths of land, from India to Japan, and time, from the first century A.D. almost to the present.
The £1bn Dundee Waterfront project, which spans 240 hectares of land stretching 8km along the River Tay, is the second largest regeneration project in Scotland.
This New York health and wellness bed and breakfast spans eight acres of land.
