Boundaries
This is a straight line drawn by people.
What is a geometric boundary?
This is based on physical features.
What is a natural boundary?
This is when two countries have a disagreement over their borders.
What is a boundary dispute?
Is another country telling you what to do? Are they sending settlers to start new lives in your land and take your resources? If so, this could be happening to you.
What is colonialism?
This country is locked in a locational boundary dispute with India over Kashmir.
What is Pakistan?
This is forced onto a country by outside powers.
What is a superimposed boundary?
This is where crossing can be done freely.
What is an open boundary?
If we can't agree on where the border should be, we are having this problem.
What is a locational boundary dispute?
We are family! There isn't much ethnic conflict here as there's mostly just one major culture within these borders.
What is a nation state?
This watery place is infamous for a bitter allocational dispute between several Asian states.
What is the South China Sea?
This is guarded and hard to pass through.
What is a militarized boundary?
This used to exist and can still be detected on the landscape.
What is a relic boundary?
I'm calling my lawyer! If we can't agree on the legal meaning of our border, we're having this dispute.
What is a definitional boundary dispute?
Sharing is caring. We're a beautiful marriage of cultures. In this country, sure we may not always get along, but we do our best to share our government.
What is a multinational state?
What is the Great Wall of China?
This is established by a legal document.
What is a defined boundary?
This is formed based on religious, ethnic, linguistic and economic differences between groups of people.
What is a subsequent boundary?
(What is an ethnographic boundary?)
This is when two countries can't agree on how to manage their border.
What is an operational boundary dispute?
Hey! We deserve a place to call home too.
What is a stateless nation?
This nomadic people live in the mountains of Nepal near the border of Tibet.
What are the Bon?
This is drawn before the cultural landscape emerged and before a large population was around.
What is an antecedent boundary?
This happens where boundary lines coincide with cultural boundaries.
What is a consequent boundary?
What is an allocational boundary dispute?
Home is where the heart is. Apparently I have several hearts.
What is a multistate nation?
This stateless nation has had a hard life living between Turkey, Syria and Iraq.
What are the Kurds?