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hgap Vocab Dec12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A state that rules itself and is not subject to the authority of another state | Independent State |
| A boundary that is placed on an area without regard to existing boundaries | Superimposed Boundary |
| States that have the most advanced industrial and military technologies, complex manufacturing systems, external political power, and the highest levels of wealth and mass consumption | Core States |
| A small territorial nucleus from which a country grows in area and over time | Core area |
| A community of people bound to a homeland and possessing a common identity based on shared cultural traits such as language, ethnicity, and religion | Nation |
| A subdivision or dependent territory of a country that has a degree of self-government, or autonomy, in its decision making | Autonomous Region |
| Sense of belonging to and self-identifying with a national culture; people with a strong sense of nationalism derive a significant part of their social identity from a sense of belonging to a nation | Nationalism |
| A country containing multiple national, ethnic, and religious groups within its boundaries | Multinational State |
| A branch of human geography concerned with the spatial analysis of political systems | Political Geography |
| A form of nationalism in which the nation is defined in terms of ethnic identity | Ethnonationalism |
| A state that possesses the sole authority over the land and people within its boundaries | Sovereign State |
| A narrow passage that restricts traffic to another region | Choke point |
| A clearly demarcated line that marks both the limits of a territory and divisions between territories; often called a border at the global scale | Boundary |
| A political boundary that developed with the cultural landscape | Subsequent Boundary |
| A nation’s ability to determine its own statehood and form its own allegiances and government; the freedom of culturally distinct groups to govern themselves in their own territories and form their own states | Self-determination |
| The idea that a state’s power to enforce its sovereignty may extend beyond its territory and varies over time and from country to country | Effective sovereignty |
| The ideal political geographical unit; one in which the nation’s geographic boundaries (a people and its culture) exactly match the state’s territorial boundaries (governance and authority) | Nation-State |
| Ethnic groups territorially divided by one or more international boundaries | Multistate nations |
| Describing how boundaries are set apart to distinguish their limits | Demarcated |
| The movement of power from the central government to regional governments within the state | Devolution |
| A region at the margins of state control and settlement | Frontier |
| Zone that extends 200 nautical miles from shoreline in which coastal states have the sole right to exploit, develop, manage, and conserve all water resources lying beyond the land | Exclusive Economic zone |
| Abrupt slopes that break up the general continuity of the terrain | Escarpments |
| Region of continuing and persistent fragmentation due to devolution and centrifugal forces | Shatterbelt |
| The ideal political geographical unit; one in which the nation’s geographic boundaries (a people and its culture) exactly match the state’s territorial boundaries (governance and authority) | Nation-State Ideal |
| States that have relatively little industrial development, simple production systems focused mostly on agriculture and raw materials, and low levels of consumption of manufactured goods | Peripheral States |
| A narrow body of water connecting two larger bodies of water | Strait |
| A territory surrounded by a country but not ruled by it | Enclave |
| Conference organized to define territorial boundaries and rights to the sea | UNCLOS |
| A subdivision or dependent territory of a country that has some degree of, but not complete, self-government | Semiautonomous region |
| A boundary that has regular, often perfectly straight, lines drawn without regard for an area’s physical or cultural features | Geometric Boundary |
| A map that shows the spatial organization of the countries and territories on the entire globe at a given point in time is known as a | Political Map |
| An approach to dividing and creating boundaries at the midpoint between two places | Median Line Principle |
| A boundary that no longer functions as an international border | Relic Boundary |
| The set of economic and political strategies by which wealthy and powerful countries indirectly maintain or extend their influence over less wealthy areas | Neocolonialism |
| An area in which treaties or agreements between nations, military powers, or contending groups forbid military installations, activities, or personnel; usually lies along an established frontier or boundary between two or more military powers or alliances | Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) |
| An independent political unit with a centralized authority that makes claim to sole legal, political, and economic jurisdiction over a region with defined boundaries | State |
| An ethnic group or nation that does not possess its own state and is not the majority population in any nation-state | Stateless nation |
| A boundary that is drawn to accommodate existing cultural differences | Consequent Boundary |
| Part of a national territory separated from the main body of the country to which it belongs | Exclave |
| A region straddling both sides of an international boundary where national cultures overlap and blend to varying degrees | Borderland |
| A nominally independent country that is politically, militarily, and economically controlled by a more powerful state | Satellite State |
| Area defined by the 66 degrees, 34 minutes north latitude line | arctic circle |
| A politically and economically weak independent country that lies between the borders of two powers | Buffer State |
| Describing how boundaries are fixed or defined to identify their limits | Delimited |
| A boundary that was identified before an area was settled | Antecedent Boundary |
Created by:
vasundhara.varadarajan