Political Geography - AP Human Geography, Chapter 8, Rubenstein
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| Anocracy | A country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic, but rather displays a mix of the two types
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| Autocracy | A country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than of the people
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| Balance of power | A condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries
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| City-state | A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediately surrounding countryside
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| Compact state | A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly
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| Elongated state | A state with a long, narrow, shape
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| Federal state | An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government
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| Fragmented state | A state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory
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| Fronteir | A zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control
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| Gerrymandering | The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power
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| Landlocked state | A state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea
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| Microstate | A state that encompasses a very small land area
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| Multiethnic state | A state that contains more than one ethnicity
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| 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
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| Nation-state | A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity
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| Perforated state | A state that completely surrounds another one
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| Prorupted state | An otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension
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| Self-determination | The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves
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| Sovereignty | The ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states
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| Unitary state | An internal organization of a state that places the most power in the hands of central government officials
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