The Shapes of Nations
The EU
Types of Boundaries
Types of States
Supranational Organizations
100
The Philippines is an example of this type of nation shape.
What is a fragmented state?
100
This policy states there are no longer any border controls stations for immigration or customs inspections between EU member states.
What is the Open-Border Policy?
100
Former state boundaries that still have political or cultural meaning.
What is a relic boundary?
100
A single culture under a single government.
What is a nation-state?
100
What NATO stands for.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
200
This type of state shape refers to a state with no sea or ocean borders.
What is a landlocked state?
200
The currency all members of the EU currently use
What is the Euro?
200
Lines resulting from conflict or cultural changes, such as war or migration.
What is a subsequent boundary?
200
A population with a single culture.
What is a nation?
200
What OPEC stands for.
What is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries?
300
Italy is an example of this type of state shape.
What is a prorupt boundary?
300
No taxes or tariffs are charged on goods and services that cross the internal borders of the EU.
What is a Free-trade Union?
300
Boundary lines that exist from prehistoric times.
What is an antecedent boundary?
300
A population under a single government.
What is a state?
300
The purpose for NAFTA.
What is a free-trade zone?
400
Nigeria is an example of this type of state shape.
What is a compact state?
400
Two organizations created prior to the EU.
What is the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community (EEC)?
400
Lines laid down for political reasons overtop cultural boundaries.
What is a superimposed boundary?
400
The Kurds and Basques are an example of this.
What is a stateless nation?
400
The purpose of the OAU
What is regional diplomacy?
500
Switzerland is an example of this type of state.
What is a landlocked state?
500
As of 2013, this many member states were in the EU.
What are 28 members?
500
Yugoslavia and Iraq after the 1919 Treaty of Versailles resulted in this type of boundary.
What is a superimposed boundary?
500
Sovereign states that, despite their size, hold the same position of much larger states.
What is a microstate?
500
The purpose of the IMF
What are government loans?
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