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AP Human Ch. 8 Vocab
Political Geography - AP Human Geography, Chapter 8, Rubenstein
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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