Political Entities
Political Power
Political Boundaries
State Morphology
Luck of the Draw
100
An area of land controlled by a nation.
What is territory?
100
Direct control over a territory usually through political subjugation and occupation.
What is colonialism/colonization?
100
The limit of a state's spatial extent.
What is a border/boundary?
100
A state that is not a contiguous whole but is instead separated parts.
What is a fragmented state?
What is the The Philippines?
100
What the Himalaya Mountains are to China and India OR the Rio Grande is to Mexico and the United States.
What are physical boundaries/borders?
200
A small sovereign state that is made up of a town or city and the surrounding area.
What is a city-state?
200
The study of the interplay between political relations and the territorial context in which they occur.
What is geopolitics?
200
Old political boundaries that no longer exist as international borders, but have left and enduing mark on the local cultural or environmental geography.
What are relic boundaries/borders?
200
A state that is long and narrow in shape.
What is an elongated state?
What is Chile?
200
The Kurds, Palestinians, and Basque peoples represent this type of political entity.
What is/are stateless nations?
300
A group of people bound together by some sense of a common culture, ethnicity, language, shared history, and attachment to a homeland. Mexicans are a good example of this.
What is a nation?
300
The indirect influence and control exerted by former colonial powers (developed states) over newly independent states (developing states).
What is neocolonialism?
300
Boundary lines established before an area is populated.
What are antecedent boundaries/borders?
300
A state that possesses a roughly circular, oval, or rectangular territory in which the distance from the geometric center is relatively equal in all directions.
What is a compact state?
What is Poland?
300
Geographic dividing lines that accommodate existing religious, linguistic, ethnic, or economic differences between countries.
What are consequent boundaries/borders?
(AKA consequent subsequent boundaries)
400
A country whose political boundaries correspond with its cultural boundaries. For example, France.
What is a nation-state?
400
Regions characterized by intense political, cultural, and military competition, often resulting from conflicting interests.
What are shatterbelts?
400
These geographic international divisions ignore cultural differences between groups in part because they are developed by people outside the groups.
What are superimposed boundaries?
400
A state that exhibits a narrow, elongated land extension leading away from the main territory.
What is a prorupt state?
What is Thailand?
400
These geographic diving lines are defined and delimited by straight lines, often representing negotiated political agreements.
What are geometric boundaries?
500
A group of people bound by common cultural traits that have a distribution that extends beyond a single state's boundaries.
What is a multi-state nation?
500
These critical junctures, such as the Strait of Hormuz or the Panama Canal, serve as vital conduits for global trade and military mobility.
What are choke points?
500
Boundary lines established after a cultural landscape exists.
What are subsequent boundaries?
500
A state that completely surrounds another.
What is a perforated state?
What is South Africa?
500
A small and relatively homogenous group, region, or state surrounded by another larger and different group, region, or state.
What is an enclave?