Geography Vocabulary 37 words

- Air space across which a country unilaterally declares its right to identify, locate, and control civil aircraft in the interest of national security.

• Air defense identification zone

• No-fly zone

• Flight information region

• Restricted airspace

A country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic but rather displays a mix of the two types.

• Anocracy

• Democracy

• Autocracy

• Oligarchy

A physical feature that serves as a boundary, so named because it existed before the present settlement.

• Antecedent boundary

• Subsequent boundary

• Superimposed boundary

• Relic boundary

A country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people.

• Autocracy

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

• Republic

A condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries.

• Balance of power

• Power imbalance

• Dominance of power

• Power vacuum

An invisible line that marks the extent of a state's territory.

• Boundary

• Border

• Frontier

• Perimeter

A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediately surrounding countryside.

• City-state

• Country

• Province

• Region

An attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory.

• Colonialism

• Imperialism

• Globalization

• Industrialization

A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent.

• Colony

• State

• Province

• Region

A local government district in which the residents live as near to one another as possible and the distance from the center to any boundary varies as little as possible.

• Compact district

• Sparse district

• Linear district

• Fragmented district