APHG Unit 4

Which TWO countries best illustrate the geographical concept of the nation-state? (Make sure you choose TWO!)

• Canada

• Russia

• Belgium

• Iceland

• Japan

Answer explanation

Canada - French, English, Inuit

Belgium - French-speaking Walloons in the South and Dutch-speaking Flemings in the North

Which is the LARGEST stateless nation in the world?

• Kurds

• Rohingya

• Roma (Gypsies)

• Palestinians

Answer explanation

20-40 million Kurds live spread over Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran

Which of the following is NOT part of the definition of a state?

• Sovereignty within defined boundaries

• A permanent population

• An economy and currency circulation

• A shared culture and history

Answer explanation

NATIONS have a shared culture and history. But a multi-national state can have several nations (with their own shared cultures and histories) within the boundaries of one state.

Northern Ireland is

• a sub-national entity within the unitary state of Great Britain

• a formal region of the Republic of Ireland

• a sovereign state

• a fully autonomous region of England

Answer explanation

The United Kingdom is a multinational state, including the Irish living in Northern Ireland, the Scots in Scotland, the Welsh in Wales, and the English (as well as many immigrant groups), all of which are part of the sovereign United Kingdom and subject to the parliament at Westminster.

Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales have, at times, been given limited autonomy and self-government, but as is the case in a unitary state, those powers can be revoked by Westminster at any time, so they are not fully autonomous.

The term Balkanization originated because of the disintegration of [ ] into smaller, mutually hostile states.

• Yugoslavia

• Nigeria

• Syria

• Czechoslovakia

Answer explanation

The former state of Yugoslavia took up most of the Balkan Peninsula (north of Greece).

Private investors and foreign governments have leased farmland for large-scale commercial farming, where much of the food and crops produced are bound for wealthier nations. This practice is an example of

• decolonization

• supranationalism

• imperialism

• neocolonialism

• irredentism

When two coastal nations are less than 24 miles apart, UNCLOS uses the [ ]-line principle to establish the boundaries of their 12 mile territorial seas.

A culturally-defined boundary drawn to accommodate religious, ethnic, or linguistic differences is called a [ ] boundary.

The India-Pakistan border line was

• superimposed and consequent

• geometric and relict

• natural and antecedent

• superimposed and relict

Answer explanation

SUPERIMPOSED - It was drawn by an outside power (Great Britain).

CONSEQUENT - It was drawn to accommodate religious differences between Hindus (most of whom ended up in India) and Muslims (most of whom ended up Pakistan).

Most of Africa's political boundaries were drawn

• by European colonial powers in the 1880s

• during the decolonization movements of the 1950s and 1960s

• by European explorers in the 17th century

• at the Bandung Conference of 1955