APHG Unit 4: Political Geography

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 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

Who was the developer of the Heartland Theory

• Nicolas Spykman
• Friedrich Ratzel
• Halford Mackinder
• James Monroe

The first types of "States" were

• Roman Empire states
• City-states
• Aztec provinces
• Chinese satraps