AP Human Geography Unit 4 Geopolitics

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A region where boundaries are very thinly or weakly developed, zones where territoriality is unclear and not well established.

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Frontier

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A state or group of states that exists within a sphere of competition between larger states and is often culturally, economically, and politically fragmented and splintered.

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Shatterbelt

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An independent country located between two larger countries that are in conflict.

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Buffer State

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A state with only one nation within its borders

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Nation-State

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a state that contains more than one ethnicity.

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Multi-Ethnic State

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a country that contains more than one ethnicity with traditions of self-determination.

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Multi-National State

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a sovereign state that comprises a town and the surrounding countryside.

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City-State

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The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.

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Self-determination

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What is an example of a state?

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Canada

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What is the largest multinational state?

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Russia