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Invisible barrier or line that separates one state from another
What is Border?
Describing how boundaries are fixed or defined to identify their limits.
What is Delimited?
Describing how boundaries are set apart to distinguish their limits
What is Demarcated?
Borders that are established before there has been major settlement by people in a territory.
What is Antecedent?
Borders that are stablished on straight lines of latitude and longitude instead of physical or cultural boundaries.
What is geometric boundary?
A politically and economically weak independent country that lies between the borders of two powers
What is buffer state?
Border that is drawn over existing and accepted borders by an outside force.
What is Superimposed?
Border that no longer exists, but has left some imprint on the local cultural or environmental geography.
What is Relic?
A nominally independent country that is politically, militarily, and economically controlled by a more powerful state.
What is satellite state?
Borders that are drawn in areas that have been settled by people, typically due to changes that have occured over time
An area in which treaties or agreements between military powers or contending groups forbid military installations, activities or personnel.
What is DMZ (demilitarized zone)?
Takes into account the existing cultural distribution of the people living in the territory and redevelops boundary lines to more closely align with cultural boundaries.
What is Consequent?
Conference organized to define territorial boundaries and rights to the sea.
What is United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)?