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| 6634163985 | political geography | the study of human political organization of the Earth at various geographic levels | 0 | |
| 6634211091 | three scales | supranational, national/country, subnational | 1 | |
| 6634241916 | territoriality | creating ownership over a defined space | 2 | |
| 6634272127 | personal space | the area we claim as our own territory into which others may not enter without permission | 3 | |
| 6634387807 | sovereignty | control a place has over the people and territory within its boundaries | 4 | |
| 6634416800 | state | how political geographers refer to countries | 5 | |
| 6634425990 | state | political unit with a permanent population, territorial boundaries that are recognized by other states, effective government, working economy, sovereignty | 6 | |
| 6634443663 | nation | a group of people who share a common culture and identify as a cohesive group (language, religion, shared history, and territory make it cohesive) | 7 | |
| 6634462474 | ethnonational conflict | conflict occurring between different nations | 8 | |
| 6634467158 | multinational state | a state (or country) that includes more than one nation within it's borders | 9 | |
| 6634474576 | nation state | a state with only one nation in its borders | 10 | |
| 6634494882 | stateless nation | when a nation does not have a territory to call its own | 11 | |
| 6634626616 | ethnonationalism | emotional attachment to one's nation that occurs when a minority nation within a state feels different from the rest | 12 | |
| 6634638645 | irredentism | a movement by a nation to reunite its parts when they have spread across other borders | 13 | |
| 6634651549 | buffer zone | exists when two or more countries sit between two larger countries in conflict | 14 | |
| 6634748502 | shatterbelts | a state or group of states that exists within a sphere of competition between larger states and is often culturally, economically, and politically fragmented and splintered | 15 | |
| 6635114435 | geometric | straight line boundaries that do to relate to the cultural or physical features of the territories involved | 16 | |
| 6635125236 | physical | boundaries that separate territory by features in the landscape | 17 | |
| 6635131268 | cultural | boundaries that mark changes in landscape, like religion or language | 18 | |
| 6635140778 | frontiers | regions where boundaries are very thinly or weakly developed, zones where territoriality is unclear and not well established | 19 | |
| 6635152252 | antecedent | boundaries that existed before human cultures developed into their current forms | 20 | |
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