Vocabulary from the Advanced Placement course of Human Geography regarding political geography
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| 539783496 | Antecedent Boundary | A boundary that was drawn across an area prior to the area becoming substantially-populated | 1 | |
| 539783497 | Balkanization | The contentious Political process by which a state may break up into smaller countries | 2 | |
| 539783498 | Centrifugal forces | divide a country | 3 | |
| 539783499 | Centripetal | unite or bind a country | 4 | |
| 539783500 | Colonialism | expansion and perpetuation of an empire | 5 | |
| 539783501 | Compact State | A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly | 6 | |
| 539783502 | Commonwealth of Independent States | Confederacy of independent states of the former Soviet Union that have united because of their common economic and administrative needs | 7 | |
| 539783503 | Domino Theory | The theory that if one nation goes under Communist control, neighboring countries will do the same | 8 | |
| 539783504 | Elongated State | A state with a long, narrow shape | 9 | |
| 539783505 | Enclave | An enclosed territory with a foreign territory around it | 10 | |
| 539783506 | European Union | A supranational organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members | 11 | |
| 539783507 | Exclave | A part of a country that is seperated from the rest of the country and surrounded by a foreign territory | 12 | |
| 539783508 | Federalism | A system of gov. in which power is distributed among certain geographical territories rather than concentrated witin a centeral gov. | 13 | |
| 539783509 | Fragmented State | A state that includes several discontinuous territories | 14 | |
| 539783510 | Frontier | A zone separating two states in which neither of the states exercises political control | 15 | |
| 539783511 | Geometric Political Boundaries | Boundaries drawn with straight lines and arcs, as opposed to irregular lines and shapes | 16 | |
| 539783512 | Gerrymandering | The redrawing of legislative boundaries entirely for electoral purposes, thereby benefiting the party in power | 17 | |
| 539783513 | Heartland Theory | A theory that suggests that whoever owns Eastern Europe and Western Asia has the political power and capital to rule the world | 18 | |
| 539783514 | Imperialism | The control of territory already occupied and organized by an indigenous society | 19 | |
| 539783515 | Land Empire | An empire that involves conquest by force in which armies attack, pillage, and plunder their way through another land, taking resources by force | 20 | |
| 539783516 | Landlocked State | A state without access to the sea | 21 | |
| 539783517 | Microstate | A state that encompasses a very small area | 22 | |
| 539783518 | Nation | A group of people with common cultural characteristics and identify themselves as a cohesive group | 23 | |
| 539783519 | Nation-State | A state whose territory corresponds to that which is occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality | 24 | |
| 539783520 | North American Free Trade agreement | Agreement entered into by Canada, Mexico, and the United States in December 1992 and which took effect on January 1, 1994 to eliminate the barriers to trade in, and facilitate the cross-border movement of goods and services between the countries. | 25 | |
| 539783521 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization | An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty to provide collective security to its members | 26 | |
| 539783522 | Organic Theory | The theory that a state needs expansive land in order to prosper | 27 | |
| 539783523 | Perforated State | A state that completely surrounds another one | 28 | |
| 539783524 | Political Geography | The study of geography involving geographic states, borders, and how humans identify with them | 29 | |
| 539783525 | Physical Boundary | A state's border that corresponds to a natural, real-life boundary | 30 | |
| 539783526 | Prorupted State | An adhesive compact state with a large expansion | 31 | |
| 539783527 | Relic Boundary | A boundary no longer observed but that still affects the present-day area | 32 | |
| 539783528 | Rimland Theory | A political theory that holds that control of Eurasia and Africa is achieved via control of the countries bordering the Soviet Union | 33 | |
| 539783529 | Self-Determination | The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves | 34 | |
| 539783530 | Sovereignty | The ability of a state to govern its territory from control of its internal affairs by other states | 35 | |
| 539783531 | State | An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government with control over its internal and foreign affairs | 36 | |
| 539783532 | Subsequent Boundaries | Drawn boundaries made with regard to ethnic differences | 37 | |
| 539783533 | Superimposed Boundaries | A boundary made through colonization without regard to prior ethnic/cultural patterns | 38 | |
| 539783534 | Supranational organization | The term applied to associations created by three or more states for their mutual benefit and achievement of shared objectives | 39 | |
| 539783535 | Territorial dispute | Any dispute over land ownership | 40 | |
| 539783536 | Territorial organization | The creating of ownership over a defined space, political organization that distributes political power in more easily governed units of land | 41 | |
| 539783537 | Theocracy | A government set up around a religious leader | 42 | |
| 539783538 | Unitary State | An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials | 43 | |
| 539783539 | United Nations | A supranational organization formed in 1945 to promote peace, security, and international cooperation | 44 | |
| 539783540 | Confederation | a joining of several groups for a common purpose | 45 | |
| 539783541 | east/west divide | geographic separation between the largely democratic and free-market countries of Western Europe and the Americas from the communist and socialist countries of Eastern Europe and Asia | 46 | |
| 539783542 | electoral college | the body of electors who formally elect the United States president and vice-president | 47 | |
| 539783543 | electoral vote | the official vote for president and vice president by electors in each state | 48 | |
| 539783544 | Geopolitics | The study of the relationship between geography and politics | 49 | |
| 539783545 | International Organization | an alliance of two or more countries seeking cooperation with each other without giving up either's autonomy or self-determination | 50 | |
| 539783546 | Law of the Sea | law - states rights and responsibilities over ownership of the ocean | 51 | |
| 539783547 | Lebensraum | Hitlers idea that germans need a lot of land | 52 | |
| 539783548 | North/South divide | The economic division between the wealthy countries of Europe and North America, Australia and Japan and generally poorer countries of Asia Africa and Latin America. | 53 | |
| 539783549 | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries | an international economic organization whose member countries all produce and export oil | 54 | |
| 539783550 | Popular Vote | the tally of each individual's vote within a given geographic area | 55 | |
| 539783551 | Redistricting | The redrawing of congressional and other legislative district lines following the census, to accommodate population shifts and keep districts as equal as possible in population. | 56 | |
| 539783552 | Reapportionment | the process of reallocating seats in the electoral college every 10 years on the basis of the results of the census. | 57 | |
| 539783553 | Rectangular State | a state whose territory is rectangular in shape | 58 | |
| 539783554 | State rights | the right of states to limit the power of the federal government | 59 |
