Types of Boundaries
Countries divided into sections. Ex. 50 states in the US, the provinces in Canada
What are internal boundaries?
A group of people with a common identity through shared cultural traits such as language, religion, ethnicity, and heritage
What is a nation?
An international organization, or union, where member states transcend national boundaries or interests to share in the decision-making and vote on issues pertaining to the wider grouping.
What is a supranational organization?
Distance from the center to any boundary is about the same. Promotes good communication similar to a circle. Ex. Hungary
What are compact states?
The redrawing of legislative districts in the US to benefit the party in power.
What is gerrymandering?
The fence along the border of The U.S. and Mexico is an example of what type of boundary?
What is demarcated?
A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality
What is a nation-state?
This organization is focused on expanding the economic growth in Europe.
What is the European Union
Long and narrow shape; often have communication and transportation problems. Ex. Chile, Vietnam, Tanzania
What are elongated states?
A place of physical congestion between wider regions of movement and interaction.
What is choke point?
The boundaries between some states are set by ethnic differences, especially those based on language and/or religion.
What are consequent/cultural boundaries
An ethnic group that does not possess its own state and is not the majority population in any nation state.
What is a stateless nation?
An international organization founded in 1945 after the Second World War committed to maintaining international peace
What is the United Nations?
Otherwise compact with a larger projecting exdersion. Often exist to reach a natural resource. Ex. Democratic Republic of Congo
What is a prorupted state?
The division or fragmentation of a larger region or state into smaller regions or states
What is balkanization?
The border between the US and Canada along the 49th parallel is best described as both geometric because its a straight line and _________________ because it was drawn before settlements were established.
What is antecedent?
A nation of people that live in more than one state.
What is a multistate nation?
Article 5, which states that an attack on one is an attack on all (collective defense), is a part of what supranational organization?
What is NATO?
Several discontinuous pieces of territory. Composed of islands. Can be problamatic if some islands are remote. Ex. Indonesia
What is a fragmented state?
Physical geography, ethnic separatism/cleansing, terrorism, economic/social problems, and irredentism are all examples of:
What are devolutionary pressures?
The boundary between East and West Berlin which no longer exists in physical or political form can still be seen in certain ways which reflects what type of boundary?
What is relic boundary?
A location within a state that is given authority to govern independently from the national government.
What is an autonomous or semi-autonomous region?
Supranational organizations can challenge ___________ by limiting the economic or political actions of member states.
What is sovereignty?
A state that completely surrounds another one. Ex. South Africa
What is a perforated state?
Between 24 and 200 nautical miles, a state has the sole right to the fish and other marine life in this type of water boundary:
What is the exclusive economic zone (EEZ)?