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| 272528591 | Antecedent boundary | a political boundary that existed before the cultural landscape emerged and stayed in place while people moved in to occupy the surrounding area. | |
| 272528592 | Compact state | a political-geographical term to describe a state tha possesses a roughly circular, oval, or rectangular territory in which the distance fromthe geometric center to any point on the boundary exhibits little variance. | |
| 272528593 | Culture-political boundary | political boundaries that coincide with cultural breads in the landscape, such as language, religion, and ethnicity | |
| 272528594 | Territorial morphology | a state's geographical shape, which can affect its spatial cohesion and political viability. a compact shapes are thos exhibited by elongated, fragmented, perforated, and protruded states. | |
| 272528595 | Enclave | a piece of territory that is surrounded by another polirical unit which it is not a part. | |
| 272528596 | Exclave | a boundary(not island) piece of territory that is part of a particular state but lies separated from it by the territory of another state. | |
| 272528597 | Theocracy | a state whose government is under control of a ruler who is deemed to be divinely guided or under the control of a group of religious leaders, as in post-khomeini Iran. The opposite of the theocratic state is the seculat state. | |
| 272528598 | Frontier | zone of advance penetration, ussaly of contentaion; an area not yet fully integrated into a politcally organized area. | |
| 272528599 | Geometric boundary | political boundaries defined and delimited(and occasionally demarcated) as straight lines or arcs | |
| 272528600 | Human territorial | a term associated with the work of Robert sack that describes the efforts of human societies to to influence events and achieve social goals by exerting, and attempting to enforce, control over specific geographical areas. | |
| 272602392 | Nation | legally, a term encompassing all the citizens of a state. most definition now tend to refer to a tightly knit group of people possessing bonds of language, ethnicity, religion, and other shared cultural attributes. such homogeneity actually prevails within very few states. | |
| 272602393 | nationalism | the desire on behalf of a group that sees itself as a nation to achieve self-government through the establishment or promotion of a nation-state with genuine sovereignty | |
| 272602394 | nation-state | theoretically, a recognized member of the modern state system possessing formal sovereignty and occupied by a people who see themselves as a single, united nation. most nations and states aspire to this form, but it is realized almost nowhere. nonetheless, in common parlance nation-state is used as a synonym for country or state. | |
| 272602395 | perforated state | a state whose territory completely surrounds that of another state. south Africa, which encloses lesotho and is perforated by it, is an example. | |
| 272602396 | physical-political boundary | political boundaries that coincide with prominent physical features in the natural landscape such as rivers or the crest ridges of mountain ranges. | |
| 272602397 | state | a state like a country | |
| 272602398 | superimposed boundary | a political boundary placed by powerful outsiders on a developed human landscape. usually ignores pre-existing cultural-spatial patterns, such as the border that now divides north and south Korea. | |
| 272602399 | relict boundary | a political boundary that has ceased to function but the imprint of which can still be detected on the cultural landscape. | |
| 272602400 | sovereignty | a principle of international relations that holds that final authority over socail, economic, and political matters should rest with the legitimate rulers of independent states. | |
| 272602401 | landlocked | an interior country or state that is surrounded by land. without coasts, and its a disadvantage in a number of ways in terms of accessibility to international trade routes and in the scramble for possession of areas of the continental shelf and control of the exclusive economic zone beyond |
