A cultural entity made up of people who have forged a common identity through a shared language, religion, heritage, or ethnicity-often all four of these.

A politically organized and recognized territory composed of a group of people who consider themselves to be a nation.

The use of economic, political, cultural, or other pressures to control or influence other countries, especially former dependencies,

The study of the ways in which the world is organized as a reflection of the power different groups hold over territory.

A former boundary that no longer has an official function.

The right of all people to choose their own political status.

Describing a region that is given partial authority to govern its territories independently from the national government.

A region where states form, join, and break up because of ongoing, sometimes violent, conflicts among parties and because they are caught between the interests of more powerful outside states.

The right of a government to control and defend its territory and determine what happens within its borders.

A politically organized independent territory with a government, defined borders, and a permanent population; a country.

A people united by culture, language, history, and tradition but not possessing a state.

A border drawn in an area that has been settled and where cultural landscapes exist or are in the process of being established.

Superimposed Boundary

A border drawn over existing accepted borders by an outside or conquering force.

The attempt to influence or control people and events by delimiting and asserting control over a geographic area; the connection of people, their culture, and their economic systems to the land.

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)

The international agreement that established the structure of maritime boundaries.

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chap 9.2

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Nation	A cultural entity made up of people who have forged a common identity through a shared language, religion, heritage, or ethnicity-often all four of these.
Nation-state	A politically organized and recognized territory composed of a group of people who consider themselves to be a nation.
Neocolonialism	The use of economic, political, cultural, or other pressures to control or influence other countries, especially former dependencies,
Political Geography	The study of the ways in which the world is organized as a reflection of the power different groups hold over territory.
Relic	A former boundary that no longer has an official function.
Self-determination	The right of all people to choose their own political status.
Semiautonomous	Describing a region that is given partial authority to govern its territories independently from the national government.
Shatterbelt	A region where states form, join, and break up because of ongoing, sometimes violent, conflicts among parties and because they are caught between the interests of more powerful outside states.
Sovereignty	The right of a government to control and defend its territory and determine what happens within its borders.
State	A politically organized independent territory with a government, defined borders, and a permanent population; a country.
Stateless Nation	A people united by culture, language, history, and tradition but not possessing a state.
Subsequent Boundary	A border drawn in an area that has been settled and where cultural landscapes exist or are in the process of being established.
Superimposed Boundary	A border drawn over existing accepted borders by an outside or conquering force.
Territoriality	The attempt to influence or control people and events by delimiting and asserting control over a geographic area; the connection of people, their culture, and their economic systems to the land.
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)	The international agreement that established the structure of maritime boundaries.

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