AP HuG Chapter 8 Political Geography

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.

The best example of a state among the following is

• an island with a long history of self-rule and a homogeneous ethnic identity, although the island has been under the control of a colonial power for the last 30 years.

• a group of islands inhabited by a homogeneous ethnicity, although the westernmost islands pertain to the territory of one country whereas the easternmost islands pertain to another country.

• a mountainous region inhabited by heterogeneous ethnicities and divided up administratively among various independent countries.

• a mountainous region inhabited by heterogeneous ethnicities which share responsibility for maintaining an independent government and a standing army

• a mountainous region inhabited by a mixture of peoples but recently colonized by a European nation-state.

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

• 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 and Romania

• 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.