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Political Geography
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Balance of Power | Condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries. |
| Boundary | Invisible line that marks the extent of a state's territory. |
| City-state | A sovereign state comprising a city and surrounded by country land. |
| Colonialism | Attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in an underdeveloped territory. |
| Colony | A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely dependent. |
| Compact state | A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary doesn't vary significantly. |
| Elongated state | A state with a long, narrow shape. |
| Federal state | The internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government. |
| Fragmented state | A state that includes multiple discontinued pieces of territory. |
| Frontier | A zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control. |
| Gerrymandering | Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power. |
| Imperialism | Controlling a territory that is already occupied and organized by a native group |
| Landlocked state | A state surrounded by other states, and has no direct access to the seat. |
| Microstate | A state that encompasses a very small land area. |
| Perforated state | A state that completely surrounds another state. |
| Prorupted state | A compact state with a large extension or "leg". |
| Sovereignty | The ability for a state to control its own domestic and foreign affairs. |
| State | An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government with control over its own internal and foreign affairs (has government, population, territory, and sovereignty) |
| Unitary state | An internal organization of a state that puts most of the power in the central government official's hands. |
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