Nations
States
Types of Boundaries
State Shapes
State Shape: Disadvantages and Advantages
100

The political framework that defines how states interact with each other in the international system

What is the modern-state system?

100

The 3 qualities something has to have to be state

What is sovereignty, territoriality, and recognitions?

100

This type of boundary is established by different groups who share a common heritage

What are ethnic boundaries?

100

A state where the distance from the center to any boundary is relatively equal

What is a compact state?

100

An advantage of a compact state is

What is easier to govern and defend?

200

A group of people who inhabit a certain place

What is a nation?

200

This introduces the concept of territoriality

What is sovereignty?

200

This type of boundaries are established along regional lines that are dictated through accents

What are language boundaries?

200

A state with a long and narrow shape

What is an elongated state?

200

An advantage of a perforated state 

What is can control access to the enclosed state?

300

What 2 things connect a nation?

What are culture and history?

300

In this type of government, two or more states share a common government

What is a multinational state?

300

This type of boundary are typically divided over absolute locations

What are geometric boundaries?

300

A compact state with a projecting extension

What is a prorupted state?

300

What is a challenge of a prorupted state?

What is the extension may be difficult to manage or defend?

400

This type of nation lives in multiple areas

What is a multistate nation?

400

A city with sovereignty

What is a city state?

400

An example of a religious boundary is

What is India and China?

400

A state that completely surrounds another state

What is a perforated state?

400

A disadvantage of a landlocked state 

What is limited access to global trade routes and maritime resources?

500

This people group are an example of a nation

What are Native Americans or Palestinians?

500

An example of a city state 

What is Washington, DC or Vatican City?

500

An example of an ethnic boundary is

What is an eruv?

500

A state that consists of several disconnected pieces of territory

What is a fragmented state?

500

A disadvantage of an elongated state is

What is difficult to govern and transport across distant areas?

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