boundaries and borders
vocab/borders/boundaries
states
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100
A political border drawn typically using straight lines of latitude or longitude.
What is geometric political boundary?
100
a politically organized body of people under a single government
What is nation?
100
A state whose territory is long and narrow in shape.
What is
elongated state?
100
A form of government with a singular power structure.
What is unitary?
100
Two countries created after WWII in South Asia
What is India/Pakistan?
200
The cartoon above refers to European division of Africa in the late 19th century.
What is the Berlin Conference (1884)?
200
a boundary that developed with the evolution of the cultural landscape and is adjusted as the cultural landscape changes...
What is subsequent boundary?
200
A state whose territory completely surrounds that of another state.
What is Perforated state?
200
Sudan split into Sudan and South Sudan over religious and cultural differences recently. This is the breakup of a state.
What is devolution?
200
the translation of the written terms of a boundary treaty (the definition) into an official cartographic representation (putting it on a map)
What is Delimitation?
300
boundaries that mark breaks in the human landscape based on differences in ethnicity
What is Cultural/ethnographic/consequent political boundary?
300
a boundary that is drawn on the cultural landscape which ignores pre-existing cultural patterns (typically a colonial boundary)...
What is a superimposed boundary?
300
State that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities
What is Multinational state?
300
Catalonia, Spain wants to separate over this factor
What is economic devolution?
300
the actual placing of a political boundary on the landscape by means of barriers, fences, walls, or other markers.
What is Demarcation?
400
natural boundary might be something like a river, mountain range or an ocean.
What is Physical/natural political boundary?
400
Existed before people settled; typically follows a natural boundary - river, lake, mtn.
What is Antecedent?
400
A type of territorial shape that exhibits a narrow, elongated land extension leading away from the main body of the territory
What is protruded state?
400
This organization wants to unite African countries, cultures and economies.
What is the African Union?
400
the policy of a state wishing to incorporate within itself territory inhabited by people who have ethnic or linguistic links with the country but lies within a neighboring state
What is Irredentism?
500
They no longer exist as international boundaries - Berlin Wall is an example
What is a relic boundary?
500
Hitler used the existence of German minorities in Czechoslovakia and Poland to justify German invasion and occupation.
What is irredentism?
500
Foreign territory lying within a state. ex. Lesotho or Vatican City.
What is an Enclave?
500
These are unifying forces within a state.
What are centripetal forces?
500
Government type with local, state and national laws and law enforcement.
What is federal governance?