Geography of Nations
Potential Spatial Conflict
State Shapes & Features
Geography of Politics
What is Political Geography?
100
A tiny country, such as Vatican City and San Marino.
What is a microstate?
100
An invisible line that marks the extent of a state’s territory
What is Boundary?
100
A state that completely surrounds another one.
What is a perforated state?
100
An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government with control over its internal and foreign affairs
What is a state?
100
Theory created by Sir Halford Mackinder that says he who rules the heartland, rules the world.
What is the Heartland Theory?
200
A state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea.
What is a landlocked state?
200
A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent.
What is a colony?
200
A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly.
What is a Compact state?
200
A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality
What is a nation-state?
200
A political boundary that corresponds with prominent physical features such as mountain ranges or rivers.
What is a physical boundary?
300
A force that binds countries together.
What is a centripetal force?
300
A zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control
What is a frontier?
300
An otherwise compact with a large projecting extension
What is a Prorupted State?
300
A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland.
What is a city-state?
300
A state containing two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determinism that agree to coexist.
What is a multinational state?
400
The ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states
What is Sovereignty?
400
An area of a country that has a degree of freedom from an external authority.
What is an Autonomous Region?
400
A state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory
What is a fragmented state?
400
The transfer or delegation of power to a lower level, especially by central government to local or regional administration.
What is devolution?
400
An attitude that tends to divide a state.
What is centrifugal force?
500
An ethnic/national minority that does not possess its own state and is not the majority population in any nation state.
What is a stateless nation?
500
Control of territory already occupied and organized by an indigenous group
What is Imperialism?
500
The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefitting the party in power
What is Gerrymandering?
500
The internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government.
What is a federal state?
500
The internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials
What is Unitary State?
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