Political Entities
Boundary Establishment and Disputes
Types of Boundaries
Supranational Organizations
Miscellaneous
100
group of people with a common identity based on shared cultural traits
What is a nation?
100
The imposition of the Superimposed boundaries onto the African continent by European powers in the late 1800's.
What is the Berlin Conference?
100
boundaries that are established on straight lines of latitude and longitude; ExL Saudi Arabia and Iraq
What is geometric?
100
This organization was formed in 1949 to provide support for member countries through political and military means; currently comprised of 31 states (Hungary just signed to approve Sweden on Feb. 26 2024)
What is NATO?
100
The redrawing of legislative districts in the US to benefit the party in power.
What is gerrymandering?
200
nation that does not have a state to occupy
What is a stateless nation?
200
use of economic, political, cultural, or other pressures to control or influence other countries; typically seen in semi-periphery and periphery countries
What is neocolonialism?
200
border that no longer exists but has left an imprint on the cultural or environmental geography
What is relict?
200
This organization is focused on expanding the economic growth in Europe; provides for open trade, common currency, and open borders
What is the European Union?
200
style of government in which power is shared between central government and local governments
What is federalism?
300
region in a state that has been given authority to govern independently from the national government
autonomous/semi autonomous region
300
region that is experiencing instability between states with overlapping territoriality and political power; Ex: Balkan Peninsula
What is a shatterbelt?
300
border that is drawn over existing cultural boundaries by an outside force 
What is superimposed?
300
organization that is comprised of 8 countries that focus on the Arctic Ocean and environmental sustainability in that region
What is the Arctic Council?
300
style of government in which the power is located centrally and local units only carry out (not create) policy
What is unitary government?
400
state that has various ethnicities and cultures within its borders
What is a multinational state?
400
a strategic strait or canal that is hard to pass through and has competition for use: Ex: Strait of Malaca
What is a choke point?
400
borders established before major settlement of people
What is antecedent?
400
organization comprised of 11 countries in the Southeast Asian Region; formed to accelerate economic growth and profess in the region; provides some protection against larger country influence
What is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)?
400
Physical geography, ethnic cleansing/separatism, terrorism, economic/social problems, and irredentism can lead to...
What is devolution of states?
500
occurs when the borders of the nation match the borders of the state
What is a nation-state?
500
process in which regions within a state demand and gain political strength and autonomy at the expense of the central government
What is devolution?
500
Boundaries must first be ________________, then ________________ (placed on maps), and then may be ______________.
What are defined, delimited, demarcated?
500
organization comprised of most countries that promotes international peace and security, protects human rights, deliver humanitarian aid, etc.; provides 17 sustainable development goals
What is the United Nations?
500
The Kurds are a stateless nation because...
What is "they are a nation that span across multiple states"
600
nation that lives in more than one state
What is a multistate nation?
600
occurs when a majority ethnic group wants to claim territory from a neighboring state due to shared culture with people right across the border
What is irredentism?
600
this set the territorial seas at 12 nautical miles from the coast lines and EEZ at 200 nautical miles
What is United Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas (UNCLOS)?
600
Explain a positive and negative of supranational organization membership.
Explanation
600
Name one current event and the concept it connects to in political geography.
Ukraine v. Russia
Israel v. Hamas
Sudan v. South Sudan