The shape of a state controls the length of its boundaries with other states. Countries have one of five basic shapes- compact, porupted, elongated, fragmented, or perforated. COMPACT STATES: EFFICIENT -ideal shape would be a circle - Usually has more communication between people ELONGATED STATES: POTENTIAL ISOLATION -Long narrow shape -EX: Chile, Malawi, Italy, Gambia. -May suffer from poor internal communications. (Distance issues) PRORUPTED STATES: ACCES OR DISPUTION -Compact state with large projecting extension -created for two principal reasons 1. To provide a state with access to a resource such as water 2. To separate two states that otherwise would share a boundary EX. AFGHANISTAN PERFORATED STATES: SOUTH AFRICA A state that completely surrounds another one
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The shape of a state controls the length of its boundaries with other states. Countries have one of five basic shapes- compact, porupted, elongated, fragmented, or perforated. COMPACT STATES: EFFICIENT -ideal shape would be a circle - Usually has more communication between people ELONGATED STATES: POTENTIAL ISOLATION -Long narrow shape -EX: Chile, Malawi, Italy, Gambia. -May suffer from poor internal communications. (Distance issues) PRORUPTED STATES: ACCES OR DISPUTION -Compact state with large projecting extension -created for two principal reasons 1. To provide a state with access to a resource such as water 2. To separate two states that otherwise would share a boundary EX. AFGHANISTAN PERFORATED STATES: SOUTH AFRICA A state that completely surrounds another one
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