APHG Unit 4, Chapter 9 Vocabulary

The study of the ways in which the world is organized as a reflection of the power different groups hold over territory.

• Political Geography

• State

• Sovereignty

• Nation

• Nation-State

A politically organized independent territory with a government, defined borders, and a permanent population; a country.

• Political Geography

• State

• Sovereignty

• Nation

• Nation-State

The right of a government to control and defend its territory and determine what happens within its borders.

• Political Geography

• State

• Sovereignty

• Nation

• Nation-State

A cultural entity made up of people who have forged a common identity through a shared language, religion, heritage, or ethnicity—often all four of these.

• Political Geography

• State

• Sovereignty

• Nation

• Nation-State

A politically organized and recognized territory composed of a group of people who consider themselves to be a nation.

• Political Geography

• State

• Sovereignty

• Nation

• Nation-State

People who share a cultural or ethnic background but live in more than one country.

• Multistate Nation

• Irredentism

• Multinational State

• Autonomous

• Semiautonomous

Attempts by a state to aquire territories in neighboring states inhabited by people of the same nation.

• Multistate Nation

• Irredentism

• Multinational State

• Autonomous

• Semiautonomous

A country with various ethnicities and cultures living inside its borders.

• Multistate Nation

• Irredentism

• Multinational State

• Autonomous

• Semiautonomous

Having the authority to govern territories independently of the national government; for example, by having a separate currency.

• Multistate Nation

• Irredentism

• Multinational State

• Autonomous

• Semiautonomous

Describing a region that is given partial authority to govern its territories independently from the national government.

• Multistate Nation

• Irredentism

• Multinational State

• Autonomous

• Semiautonomous