Geography - 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

Countries controlled by another, more powerful state.

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

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

The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.

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

What four states does Kurdistan exist within?

• Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Armenia

• Turkey, Armenia, Iran, and Georgia

• Syria, Turkey, Iran, and Iraq

• Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Israel

What is an example of a state?

• Hawaii

• Cherokee Nation

• Greenland

• Canada

What is the largest multinational state?

• USA

• Indonesia

• Russia

• China

The killing of a racial or ethnic group by another racial or ethnic group

• Ghetto
• Herbicide
• Centripetal Force
• Genocide