Types of Political Boundaries
A border created using lines of latitude and longitude
What is a geometric boundary?
A border between two or more different countries
What is an international boundary?
A sovereign state having a very small population or very little land area
What is a micro state?
An international organization comprising 27 European countries
What is the EU?
A set of beliefs about a nation, including its origins, nature, and value
What is nationalism?
A boundary that existed before human settlement and the creation of cultural landscape
What is an antecedent boundary?
A boundary that exists within a country's borders
What is an internal boundary?
What is a multinational state?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a alliance of countries from Europe and North America
What is NATO?
A type of force that brings a community together rather than a type of force that tends to tear a group apart due to controversial topics
What is the difference between centripetal and centrifugal forces?
A boundary that no longer exists but still impacts the cultural landscape
What is a relic boundary?
The process of redrawing districts after the census has occured
What is redistricting?
Japan, Denmark, and Slovenia are examples of this type of state
What is en example of a nation state?
An international organization founded in 1945 currently made up of 193 member states
What is the United Nations?
The practice of redrawing the boundaries of electoral districts to favor a participating political party or group
What is gerrymandering?
A boundary that was created to divide different ethnic groups, religions, or linguistic groups
What is a consequent boundary?
A geographic area organized together for the purpose of administering elections
What are voting districts?
Russia is an example of this type of state
What is an example of a multinational state?
The process of people of another culture losing their original culture in order to adapt to the new culture around them
What is assimilation?
A boundary that was created by a foreign state or group
What is a superimposed boundary?
The process of either bringing together like-minded voters into closer districts or spreading like-minded voters across multiple districts
What is packing and cracking in gerrymandering?
Compact, Elongated, Prorupted, Fragmented, and Perforated
What are the 5 basic shapes of states?
The process of people of another culture learning and using the new culture around them in their everyday life, while still keeping their own culture
What is acculturation?