synonymous to a country and represents a formal religion in which the government has sovereighty or control of its own affairs within its territoral boundaries.

territorial boundaries encompassing a group of people with a shared ethnicity.

a shared group of people with the same ethnicity.

a state that includes many borders in its state, the United States is an example of multinationonal state.

a large group of people sharing a common culture,language,and their backstory.

a country whose borders are roughly equidistant from its center.

a country with a long and narrow shape, where one dimension is significantly greater than the other.

countires with a compact main body and a long, narrow extension.

a country that completely surrounds another independent state.

a country made of several disconnected land peices.

geographical areas completely surrounded by other land.

a system of government that determines access to public office

a system of government where the power is vested in the people.

a form of governmentwhere power is highly concentrated in the hands of a single leader or a small group.

a global body of 193 member states.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

a system of government where power is divided between a central national government and regional governments.

a system where a strong central government holds ultimate authority.

the manipulation of an electoral constituency’s boundaries so as to favor one party or class.

a large state-less ethnic group primarily in-habiting a mountanious region called Kurdistan.

the political procces that created the german empire.

the 19th-century process of consolidating the various independent states of the Italian peninsula into a single nation-state, known as the kingdom of Italy.

What types of governments exist in the world and how do they differ from one another?

Democracy, Monarchy, Communist state, Colonialism, Republic.

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World Geograhy

Midterm Study Guide

Question	Answer
State (country)	synonymous to a country and represents a formal religion in which the government has sovereighty or control of its own affairs within its territoral boundaries.
Nation-state	territorial boundaries encompassing a group of people with a shared ethnicity.
Nation	a shared group of people with the same ethnicity.
Multi-National State	a state that includes many borders in its state, the United States is an example of multinationonal state.
Stateless Nation	a large group of people sharing a common culture,language,and their backstory.
Compact state	a country whose borders are roughly equidistant from its center.
Elongated state	a country with a long and narrow shape, where one dimension is significantly greater than the other.
Prorupted states	countires with a compact main body and a long, narrow extension.
Perforated states	a country that completely surrounds another independent state.
Fragmented states	a country made of several disconnected land peices.
Landlock states	geographical areas completely surrounded by other land.
Regime	a system of government that determines access to public office
Democratic Regime	a system of government where the power is vested in the people.
Authoritarian Regime	a form of governmentwhere power is highly concentrated in the hands of a single leader or a small group.
United Nations	a global body of 193 member states.
NATO	North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Federal State	a system of government where power is divided between a central national government and regional governments.
Unitary State	a system where a strong central government holds ultimate authority.
Gerrymandering	the manipulation of an electoral constituency’s boundaries so as to favor one party or class.
The Kurds	a large state-less ethnic group primarily in-habiting a mountanious region called Kurdistan.
German Unification	the political procces that created the german empire.
Italian Unification	the 19th-century process of consolidating the various independent states of the Italian peninsula into a single nation-state, known as the kingdom of Italy.
What types of governments exist in the world and how do they differ from one another?	Democracy, Monarchy, Communist state, Colonialism, Republic.

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