Boundaries
A boundary that coincides with features of the natural landscape...
Physical Boundary
A system where the power is held primarily by the central government with very little power given to local governments...
Unitary System
What group of people are a stateless nation, want to be a state and were promised land several times?
The Kurds (Kurdistan)
A state that has two or more ethnic groups...
Multinational State
An area organized into a political unit that is ruled by an established government and that has soverneighty...
A State
A boundary that seperates where a group of people live under the same aspects of culture such as political and religous beliefs and a shared religion?
Cultural Boundary
Of the two main types of political spatial organizations, which are you more likely to find multiple ethnic groups and significant minority populations?
Federal System
The Nargono-Karabakh conflict is a territorial conflict between two Middle Eastern countries. What are the two countries involved in this conflict?
Armenia and Azerbaijan
A nation of people that has a dominant homogenous ethnic group...
Nation State
Define Gerrymandering
the drawing of boundaries for political districts by the party in power to protect/increase its power
- cracking, packing, stacking, hijacking, kidnapping
What is a boundary that developed with the evolution of the cultural landscape and is adjusted as the cultural landscape changes?
Subsequent Boundary
A unitary state is a state that is governed by a single entity by a central government. Name two examples of a unitary state.
Many possible answers: France, Japan, Kenya
India and Pakistan have been fighting over Kashmir for over 70 years and is an example of what type of conflict?
Territorial Conflict
Chinatown, Little Italy, and Little Haiti are all examples of...
an ethnic enclave
The United Nations, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and the European Union are all examples of what type of organization?
Supranational Organization
A relic boundary is a one that no longer exists, but is still visible on the landscape. Name one example of a relic boundary in Europe.
The Berlin Wall - formerly seperated East and West Germany, but marks a division that has no cultural or political meaning.
What is the breakup of a large state into several independent ones OR the movement of power from the central government to regional governments within the state known as?
Devolution
An overarching theme of political geography is conflicts and relationships between countries. What are the forces that divides the citizens of a country, and what are the forces that unite citizens of a country?
divide the citizens in a country: centrifugal forces
unite a country's population: centripetal forces
A sovereign state comprising of a city and its hinterland is...
a city-state
The segregation of Black people in South Africa from 1948-1994; created to keep the white minority in power
Apartheid
The Berlin Conference was an example of neocolonialism, and created what two types of boundaries in Africa?
Superimposed and Geometric
Federal and Unitary States are the two main stypes of political spatial organizations, and have many strengths and weaknesses. List one weakness of a federal state, and one weakness of a unitary state.
Federal Weaknesses: contradictory laws between levels of government; slower to gain consensus and respond to national issues
Unitary Weaknesses: laws and policies may overlook minority groups and local, regional, or peripheral issues; power and benefits are often concentrated in the core area of a country
When the Soviet Union fell in 1990, Yugoslavia went through a process callked balkanization. Define the term, balkanization.
Areas that suffer from balkanization are also referred to as shatterbelts.
An autonomous region is a defined area within a state that has a high degree of self-governing and freedom from its parent state. List an example of an autonomous region in Europe.
Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom
Faroe Islands from Norway
Catalonia from Spain
A militarized boundary is one that is heavily guarded and discourages the movement across. An example of a miliarized boundary is...
North and South Korea: DMZ
Sudan and South Sudan
Iran and Iraq