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

DAILY DOUBLE!!--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

DAILY DOUBLE!!--The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting 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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