Chapter 8

The world's largest state is

• China

• Canada

• Russia

• Alaska

• India

Extremely small island-states in the world, many of which are former European colonies, are called

• island nations

• macrostates

• microstates

• small nation-states

• island colonies

The world's smallest state is

• Monaco

• Bahrain

• Andorra

• Vatican City

• Tuvalu

An area organized into an independent political unit is a

• colony

• nationality

• nation

• state

• territory

This country has built a sand wall around the disputed Sahrawi Republic.

• Mauritania

• Mali

• Malawi

• Mozambique

• Morocco

The Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands represent the contested sovereignty of these three nations.

• The Philippines, Indonesia, Australia

• Japan, Russia, The People's Republic of China

• The People's Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan), Japan

• The People's Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan), Australia

• E) The People's Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan), Russia

These two countries are committed to unifying the nation but face disagreement as to which will be the dominant political and economic ideology.

• North and South VIetnam

• Moldova

• Lesotho and the Republic of South Africa

• Morocco and Sahrawi Republic

• North and South Korea

Korea is a good example of a(n)

• sovereign state

• nation-state existing in a unified condition.

• ethnicity divided between more than one state.

• colony divided between more than one ethnicity.

• patron-state

A state with control over its internal affairs has

• Centripetal forces

• nationality

• suffrage

• sovereignty

• ethnicity

This is a sovereign state that comprises an urban area and the surrounding countryside.

• rural state

• nation state

• city state

• primate state

• homogeneous state