The OUN's stated immediate goal was the establishment of a united, independent national state on Ukrainian ethnic territory.

There was also a very large number of lower-level ethnic territories, such as national districts and national village sovets.

Matthias Hunyady, whose army thereafter occupied considerable part of the Slovenian ethnic territory, was very popular with simple folk.

Contrary to the international obligation, Poland had to grant autonomy to ethnic Ukrainian territories.

Italian occupying forces were accused of committing war crimes in order to transform occupied territories into ethnic Italian territories.

These included a quarter of the Slovene ethnic territory, including areas that were exclusively ethnic Slovene.

According to its initial declaration, the primary goal of OUN was to establish an independent, united national state on ethnic Ukrainian territory.

The declaration asserted the right to self-determination, meaning the creation of a state within ethnic Lithuanian territories.

Issele-Uku is part of the ethnic territory of the Igbo people.

The Independent State of Croatia was declared to be on Croatian "ethnic and historical territory".