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Geometric Borders
What are borders on straight lines of longitude and latitude?
Consequent Borders
What happens when the boundary takes the cultural distribution in mind?
Subsequent Borders
What are borders drawn in areas that have been settled?
Antecedent Borders
What are borders set up before there has been a major settlement in a territory?
Superimposed Borders
What are borders drawn by outsiders?
Relic Borders
What are borders that no longer exist but left an imprint?
Delimited Boundary
What is identifying the location of the defined boundaries on a map?
Demarcated boundary
What is the visible marking of the landscape with objects?
Federal State
What is a style of government in which power is shared between central regional and local governments?
Unitary State
What is power located centrally and the purpose of regional and local units is to carry out the policies?
Redistricting
What are states internal political boundaries that determine voting districts for the House of Representatives and state legislatures?
Gerrymandering
What is redistricting for a political advantage?
Irredentism
What is the political claim to territory in another country based on ethnic affiliations and historic borders?