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Political Geo. Ch. 8
Flashcards for vocabulary found in chapter 8, Political Geography.
Question | Answer |
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A state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea | Landlocked state |
Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefitting the party in power | Gerrymandering |
Control of territory already occupied and organized by an indigenous group | Imperialism |
A state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory | Fragmented state |
Condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries | Balance of power |
A state that encompasses a very small land area | Microstate |
Invisible line that marks the extent of a state's territory | Boundary |
A zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control | Frontier |
An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials | Unitary state |
A state with a long, narrow shape | Elongated state |
Attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another country | Colonialism |
A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland | City-state |
An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government | Federal state |
A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly | Compact state |
An otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension | Prorupted state |
A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent | Colony |
A state that completely surrounds another one | Perforated state |
Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states | Sovereignty |
An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government with control over its internal and foreign affairs | State |