Land Boundaries
Uses straight lines to divide areas of land, often using lines of Latitude & Longitude.
What is a Geometric Boundary?
Formed after WWll to promote peace in the world.
What is the United Nations?
The acting of changing from colonial to independent status.
What is Decolonization?
Steps that are needed to create a boundary.
What is a Boundary Process?
A cultural unit in a specific territory with a shared identity due to history/heritage.
What is a Nation?
Once existed as an official boundary, now is no longer recognized.
What is a Relic Boundary?
Largest military budget in the world, and the main goal is to protect the states involved through military.
What is NATO?
A policy where a major power uses economic & political means to extend it's influence over it's former colonies.
What is Neocolonialism?
Where the location of a boundary is negotiated and decided.
What is a Defining Process?
A state (country) with more than one cultural group.
What is a Multinational State?
Created during human settlement alongside the region's culture and is rarely geometric.
Set up to promote cultural, economic and political development in the region and manages the water resource issues in the seas.
What is the ASEAN?
The ability of a country to make its own political choices.
What is Self-Determination?
A boundary being placed on a map.
What is a Delimiting Process?
A political unit with defined boundaries, a population, recognition, and sovereignty.
What is a State?
Forced creation of a boundary by an outside power or force.
What is a Superimposed Boundary?
The goal was to create a free trade zone. Contains a parliament, central bank and flag.
What is the European Union?
A geographical land feature that makes it harder for an area to be captured.
What is a Choke Point?
Physically marking a boundary, usually by placing walls, fences, etc.
What is a Demarcating Process?
The political boundaries and cultural boundaries match. (Not very common)
What is a Nation-State?
Drawn to show some sort of cultural divide.
What is a Consequent Boundary?
Where states work together for a common political, economic, military or cultural purpose.
What is Supra-nationalism?
An area of instability between regions with opposing political and cultural views.
What is a Shatter-belt?
How a boundary will be maintained.
What is a Administering Process?
When a country gives some degree of freedom to one or more regions.
What is an Autonomous Region?