Unit 4 Political Geography

What is the definition of a nation-state?

• A city with political & economic control over the surrounding countryside

• A sovereign state with subjects who are relatively homogeneous (language, culture, etc)

• A state that contains 2 or more ethnic groups with a history of self-determination, that have agreed to coexist as one state, while remaining culturally distinct.

• A nation that stretches over many states and has multiple cultural identities.

What is a multistate nation?

• A city with political & economic control over the surrounding countryside

• A sovereign state with subjects who are relatively homogeneous (language, culture, etc)

• A state that contains 2 or more ethnic groups with a history of self-determination, that have agreed to coexist as one state, while remaining culturally distinct.

• A nation that stretches over many states and has multiple cultural identities.

What is a stateless nation?

• When an ethnicity has a history of self-determination but does not have a recognized state

• A state that contains 2 or more ethnic groups with a history of self-determination, that have agreed to coexist as one state, while remaining culturally distinct.

• Regions that have a certain degree of autonomy from an external power. These areas have power over their own affairs & are geographically distant from the country.

• Regions that have some control over their own affairs, however, another state also controls the regions.

Autonomous region

• When an ethnicity has a history of self-determination but does not have a recognized state

• Regions that have a certain degree of autonomy from external power. These areas have power over their own affairs & are geographically distant from the country.

• Regions that have some control over their own affairs, however, another state also controls the regions.

• A nation that stretches over many states and has multiple cultural identities.

Cultural Boundary

• A boundary that divides ethnicities, language, or religion.

• A straight line that sometimes follows longitude and latitude

• A boundary that follows major geographic features like deserts, mountains, and bodies of water

• A political boundary that existed before the cultural landscape emerged and stayed in a place while people moved into occupy the surroundings

Geometric boundary

• Boundaries that no longer exist but still impact cultural landscape

• A straight line that sometimes follows longitude and latitude

• A boundary that follows major geographic features like deserts, mountains, and bodies of water

• A political boundary that existed before the cultural landscape emerged and stayed in a place while people moved into occupy the surroundings

Physical boundary

• Boundaries that no longer exist but still impact cultural landscape

• A boundary that develops along with the cultural landscape, language, religious, and ethnic breaks.

• A boundary that follows major geographic features like deserts, mountains, and bodies of water

• A political boundary that existed before the cultural landscape emerged and stayed in a place while people moved into occupy the surroundings

Superimposed boundary

• Boundaries that no longer exist but still impact cultural landscape.

• A boundary that develops along with the cultural landscape, language, religious, and ethnic breaks.

• Boundaries that are put in place by a foreign state

• A boundary that divides different ethnic groups by physical features.

When a state has freedom over its own affairs, what does it have?

• centrifugal forces

• nationalism

• sovereignty

• pluralism

Which government gives its people the power to choose representatives to make decisions?

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Socialism

• Dictatorship