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State	an area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs.
Sovereignty	Independence from control of its internal affairs by other states.
CityState	a sovereign state that comprises a town and the surrounding countryside.
Colony	a territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than being completely independent.
Colonialism	The effort by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles on such territory.
Imperialism	Control of a territory already occupied and organized by an indigenous society.
Boundary	An invisible line marking the extent of a state’s territory.
Compact state	The distance from the center of the state to any boundary does not vary significantly.
Prorupted state	A compact state with large projecting extensions.
Elongated State	State with a long and narrow shape.
Fragmented State	A state with several discontinuous pieces of territory.
Perfrorated State	A state that completely surrounds another.
Landlocked state	a State completely surrounded by several other countries.
Frontier	A zone where no state exercises complete political control.
Gerrymandering	The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.
Balance of power	A condition of roughly equal strength between opposing alliances.
Unitary state	places the most power in the hands of the central government officials.
Federal state	allocates strong power to units of local government within the country.
Microstate	States with very small land areas