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Geography of Nations
Potential Spatial Conflict
State Shapes & Features
Geography of Politics
What is Political Geography?
100
A tiny country, such as Vatican City and San Marino.
What is a microstate?
100
An invisible line that marks the extent of a state’s territory
What is Boundary?
100
A state that completely surrounds another one.
What is a perforated state?
100
An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government with control over its internal and foreign affairs
What is a state?
100

This is the belief that aims to reclaim or unite territories that are perceived to have belonged to a state. 

What is irrendentism? 

200
A state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea.
What is a landlocked state?
200
A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent.
What is a colony?
200
A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly.
What is a Compact state?
200
A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality
What is a nation-state?
200
A political boundary that corresponds with prominent physical features such as mountain ranges or rivers.
What is a physical boundary?
300
A force that binds countries together.
What is a centripetal force?
300
An area in which the boundaries have been continuously redrawn due to conflict and tension.
What is a shatter belt?
300
An otherwise compact with a large projecting extension
What is a Prorupted State?
300
A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland.
What is a city-state?
300
A state containing two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determinism that agree to coexist.
What is a multinational state?
400
The ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states
What is Sovereignty?
400
Iceland is an example of which type of state: multinational, multiethnic, microstate, or nation-state?
What is nation-state?
400
A state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory
What is a fragmented state?
400
The transfer or delegation of power to a lower level, especially by central government to local or regional administration.
What is devolution?
400
An attitude that tends to divide a state.
What is centrifugal force?
500
An ethnic/national minority that does not possess its own state and is not the majority population in any nation state.
What is a stateless nation?
500

This is a strategic geographic feature, such as a strait, mountain pass, isthmus, or other feature restricting movement. 

What is a choke point?

500
The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefitting the party in power
What is Gerrymandering?
500
The internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government.
What is a federal state?
500
The internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials
What is Unitary State?