Corridor

Pronunciation: k?r"r?-d?r or -d?r
n.
  1. (Arch.) A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.
  2. (Fort.) The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.
  3. any relatively narrow passageway or route, such as a strip of land through a foreign territory.
  4. a densely populated stretch of land; as, the Northeast corridor, extending from Richmond, Virginia into Maine.