colony

A geographical area politically controlled by a distant country.

A body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government.

“the American colony in Paris”

A group of organisms of the same type living or growing together.

A place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated.

“a nudist colony”

“an artists' colony”

(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell.

One of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States.