AP Human Geography - Political Chapter 8

A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary doesn’t vary significantly.

• Unitary State
• Compact State
• City-State
• Federal State

Attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory.

• Sovereignty
• State
• Imperialism
• Colonialism

What is a landlocked state?

• A state that requires a key to get into
• A state that has combination locks all over the and
• A state that lacks a direct outlet to sea
• A state that only allows land ownership for certain groups

Invisible line that marks the extent of a state’s territory

• Boundary
• Colony
• Prorupted State
• State

A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent

• Frontier
• Sovereignty
• Colony
• Elongated state

An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government

• Federal state
• Unitary state
• Elongated state
• Perforated state

A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland

• Compact state
• City-state
• Fragmented state
• Microstate

A state with a long, narrow shape

• Prorupted state
• Elongated state
• Compact state
• Perforated state

Control of territory already occupied and organized by an indigenous group

• Sovereignty
• Colonialism
• Frontier
• Imperialism

An otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension

• Prorupted state
• Elongated state
• Fragmented state
• Unitary state