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DC Chapter 8
Political Geography Chapter 8 Vocab Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Anocracy | A country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic, but rather displays a mix of two types. |
| Autocracy | A country that is run according to the interest of the ruler rather than the people. |
| Balance of Power | A condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries. |
| Boundary | An invisible line that marks the extent of a state's territory. |
| City-state | A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediately surrounding countryside. |
| Colonialism | An attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory. |
| Colony | A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent. |
| Compact state | A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly. |
| Democracy | A country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office. |
| 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. |
| Frontier | A zone separating two states in which neither state exercise 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 that has been transformed into a nationality. |
| Perforated state | A state that completely surrounds another one. |
| Prorupted state | An otherwise compact state with a large projection extension. |
| Self-determination | The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves. |
| Sovereignty | Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states. |
| State | An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs. |
| Terrorism | The systematic use of violence by a group in order to intimidate a population or coerce a government into granting its demands. |
| Unitary state | An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials. |
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