Political Geography

The study of how the world is divided and spatially arranged by the exercise of political power and the drawing of boundaries.

• Political Geography

• Nation-State Geography

• Sovereign Geograpy

• Economic Geography

There are 195 independent states in the world today and only 20 in 1800.

• True

• False

A political unit that has power over a geographic territory, which is defined by borders and contains a population.

• State

• Nation

• Nation-State

• Multi-nation-state

A state does not have sovereignty

• True

• False

US states are not considered states in political geography

• True

• False

For much of world history people were consolidated into

• Soviet Republics

• Nation-States

• Empires

• City-States

A sense of commonality among a people based on shared language, religion, and social customs, and that is often linked with a desire for territory.

• Communism

• Nationalism

• Colonialism

• Statism

A group of people who share a common language, history and culutre is a

• Mutli-state Nation

• Stateless Nation

• Nation-State

• Nation

A state made up of a single unified nation

• Nation-State

• Stateless Nation

• Multistate nation

• Nation

A group of people who share common cultural values and history but lack a form state

• Nation-State

• Stateless Nation

• Multistate Nation

• Nation