Political Geography Quiz

An area organized into an independent political unit is a

• colony

• nationality

• nation

• state

• territory

The world's largest state is

• China

• Canada

• Russia

• Alaska

• India

Extremely small states in the world are called

• island nations

• macrostates

• microstates

• small nation-states

• island-colonies

The world's smallest state is

• Monaco

• Bahrain

• Andorra

• Vatican City

• Tuvalu

Which term describes a state with control over its internal affairs, independent of outside influence?

• Centripetal

• Nationality

• Centrifugal

• Sovereignty

• Ethnicity

Sovereignty can sometimes be difficult to determine because

• borders change regularly in some parts of the world.

• of ongoing disputes between some states as to the status of territory.

• islands that are former colonies want to remain part of the colonizing country.

• Islands that are near several countries launch missiles to defend themselves.

• states in the desert cannot determine national boundaries.

Which country has built a sand wall around the disputed Sahrawi Republic?

• Mauritania

• Mali

• Malawi

• Mozambique

• Morocco

Which pair of countries seeks to reunify, but disagree about the dominant political and economic ideology?

• North and South Vietnam

• Moldova and Romania

• Lesotho and the Republic of South Africa

• Morocco and Sahrawi Republic

• North and South Korea

Disagreement over the sovereignty of Taiwan can be traced to

• an election won by the Nationalist government of China.

• a declaration of independence made by the leaders of Taiwan.

• the United States support of Taiwan instead of mainland China during WWII.

• an election won by the Communist government in China.

• the United Nations recognition of Taiwan as the legitimate government of China.

Which term describes a sovereign state comprised of an urban area and the surrounding countryside?

• rural-state

• nation-state

• city-state

• primate-state

• homogeneous state