The Shapes of Nations
Done every 10 years to compile data and reconfigure voting districts.
What is the census?
The currency used in many EU countries.
What is the Euro?
This type of state shape refers to a state with no sea or ocean borders.
What is a landlocked state (enclave accepted)?
Characteristics that unify a country and provide stability.
What are centripetal forces?
What NATO stands for.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
Italy is an example of this type of state shape.
What is a perforated state?
Set of UN laws establishing states’ rights and responsibilities concerning the ownership and use of the Earth’s waters and their resources
What is the Law of the Sea?
A population, under a single government that controls internal and external affairs.
What is a state?
The purpose for NAFTA/USMCA
What is a free-trade zone between USA, Mexico, Canada
Vietnam is an example of this type of state shape.
What is an elongated state?
Power that is divided amongst local and regional governments under this system.
What is a federal state?
What does OPEC stand for
What is Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries?
Kaliningrad and Alaska are examples of what, pertaining to shape of states?
What are exclaves?
Splitting of a state along ethnic divisions.
What is balkanization?
The "DMZ" along the 38th parallel is what type of boundary?
What is a geometric (fortified/militarized) boundary?
Sovereign states that, despite their small size, hold the same position of much larger states.
What is a microstate?
The purpose of the IMF
What are loans? (or any response dealing with giving money to other countries to be repaid later)