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CH.8 GS Pt.1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| City-State | City and its immediate hinterland |
| Colonialism | Establish settlements |
| Compact state | Boundary does not vary significantly |
| Elongated state | Long, narrow shape |
| Enclave Country | completely surrounded |
| Exclave | bounded territory separated from state |
| Federal state | Most powers to units of local government |
| Fragmented States | Several discontinuous pieces of territory |
| Frontier | Separating two states |
| Geometric Boundary | Boundaries that are straight lines |
| Imperialism | Control of territory already occupied |
| Landlocked state | No direct outlet to sea |
| Law of the Sea | Establishing states' rights ownership and the use of the earth's seas |
| Microstate | small land area |
| Nation | sharing a common language, ethnicity, religion, and other cultural attributes |
| Nation -State | Country homogeneity and unity |
| Perforated State | State that surrounds another one |
| Physical boundary | boundaries correspond prominent physical features |
| Prorupted state | Large projecting extension |
| Self-determination | govern itself |
| Sovereignty | Free from control of its internal affairs by other states |
| State | Organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government |
| Unitary State | Most power in the hands of central government officials |