Boundaries
The present-day area where the Berlin Wall stood would best represent this type of political boundary.
What is a relic boundary?
When cartographers draw boundaries on a map it is called this.
What is delimitation?
This is a system of government which places the power of the state in the hands of a central government.
What is a unitary system of government?
This is the drawing of internal political districts to benefit a political party which results in odd-shaped districts.
What is gerrymandering?
This is an area of land with a defined border and a sovereign government.
What is a state?
This type of boundary coincided with landforms such as mountains, rivers, or deserts.
What is a physical boundary?
This happens in the United States every ten years to draw boundaries so that each district has a similar distribution of population to guarantee equal representation.
What is redistricting?
This is an attitude or phenomenon that divides a state.
What is centrifugal force?
This gives power to an authority that transcends international borders.
What is supranationalism?
This is a group of people with a common history, language, and culture.
What is a nation?
The Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the period known as New Imperialism. The political boundaries established at the conference had no regard for existing cultural patterns between African ethnic groups which is an example of this type of boundary.
What is a superimposed boundary?
This is the fragmentation of states into smaller units that are not cooperative with one another is and extreme example of this.
What is devolution?
Brazil has twenty-six states, each of which has powers seperate from those of the national government. A country with power distributed between the national and subnational governments is described as this.
What is federal?
During the age of imperialism (1880s-1950s) this country had the most control over the areas in northern Africa.
What is France?
What is a stateless nation?
This region is a source of border disputes between India and Pakistan.
What is Kashmir?
The devolution of the Soviet Union (USSR) can be viewed as this political process because of the break-up of a larger state into the several smaller states of Moldova, Armenia, and Turkmenistan as countries.
What is balkanization?
Patriotism, historical holidays, and international sporting events are all examples of this type of force.
What is centripetal force?
This is a region that is under constant tension and experiences instability and stress due to the opposing forces on all sides. These areas are highly unstable and often undergo civil war and massacre.
What is a shatterbelt?
This term best describes Japan because the cultural borders match the borders of the state and there is one predominant ethnic group.
What is nation-state?
This is a boundary that is put in place before the cultural landscape develops. These boundaries are created in mostly unpopulated areas before the settling of a distinct cultural group. An example of this is the 49th parallel, which is now considered the US/Canada border.
What is an antecedent boundary?
What is irredentism?
Many African nations joined this Supranational Organization in the 1960s because of the end of colonialism and the creation of newly independent African states.
What is the United Nations?
This law was signed by over 100 countries between 1973 and 1982, with the primary purpose of preventing global conflicts related to maritime boundaries.
What is UNCLOS (The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea)?
South Africa is identifies as this type of state because it includes surrounds the enclave of Lesotho.
What is a perforated state?