Political Geography
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| State | an area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs.
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| Sovereignty | Independence from control of its internal affairs by other states.
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| City-state | a sovereign state that comprises a town and the surrounding countryside.
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| Colony | a territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than being completely independent.
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| Colonialism | The effort by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles on such territory.
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| Imperialism | Control of a territory already occupied and organized by an indigenous society.
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| Boundary | something that indicates bounds or limits
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| Compact state | The distance from the center of the state to any boundary does not vary significantly.
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| Prorupted state | A compact state with large projecting extensions.
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| Elongated State | State with a long and narrow shape.
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| Fragmented State | A state with several discontinuous pieces of territory.
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| Perforated State | A state that completely surrounds another.
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| Landlocked state | a State completely surrounded by several other countries. (Does not have a coastline)
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| Frontier | A zone where no state exercises complete 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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| Balance of power | A condition of roughly equal strength between opposing alliances.
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| Unitary state | places the most power in the hands of the central government officials.
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| Federal state | allocates strong power to units of local government within the country.
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| Microstate | States with very small land areas
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| physical boundary | major physical features such as deserts, mountain ranges, and/or water bodies that serve as a means of separation, i.e., Great Lakes, Pyrenees Mountains, and Sahara Desert
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| geometric boundary | straight lines that serve as political boundaries that are unrelated to physical and /or cultural differences
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| cultural political boundary | political boundary that separates different cultures
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| United Nations | The most important international organization created at the end of WW II whose purpose is the keep world peace.
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| Military Alliances | Organizations of countries who agree to help each other militarily if attacked by another country. Examples - NATO, Warsaw Pact, OSCE.
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| Terrorism | The systematic use of violence by a group in order to intimidate a population or coerce a government into granting its demands.
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