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AP Human Ch. 8 Vocab
Political Geography - AP Human Geography, Chapter 8, Rubenstein
Term | Definition |
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Anocracy | A country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic, but rather displays a mix of the two types |
Autocracy | A country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than of the people |
Balance of power | A condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries |
City-state | A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediately surrounding countryside |
Compact state | A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly |
Elongated state | A state with a long, narrow, shape |
Federal state | An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government |
Fragmented state | A state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory |
Fronteir | A zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control |
Gerrymandering | The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power |
Landlocked state | A state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea |
Microstate | A state that encompasses a very small land area |
Multiethnic state | A state that contains more than one ethnicity |
Multinational state | A 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 |
Nation-state | A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity |
Perforated state | A state that completely surrounds another one |
Prorupted state | An otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension |
Self-determination | The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves |
Sovereignty | The ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states |
Unitary state | An internal organization of a state that places the most power in the hands of central government officials |