AP Human Geography Political Vocabulary Review

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

• Frontier
• Shatterbelt
• Buffer State
• Satellite State

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.

• Frontier
• Satellite States
• Shatterbelt
• Buffer State

Countries controlled by another, more powerful state.

• Slav State
• Imperialist State
• Buffer State
• Satellite State

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

• Satellite State
• Buffer State
• Shatterbelt
• Frontier

A state with only one nation within its borders

• Stateless-Nation
• Nation-State
• Ethnocentric Nation
• Statehood

A conflict that occurs between different nations

• Civil War
• Nation-State War
• Ethnocentrism
• Ethnonational Conflict

a state that contains more than one ethnicity.

• United States
• Multi-Cultural State
• Multi-Ethnic State
• Nation-State

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

• Multi-Ethnic State
• Multi-National State
• Stateless Nation
• Nationalism

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

• Nation-State
• City-State
• Stateless Nation
• National State

The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.

• Self-determination
• Nationalism
• Predestination
• Nation-State