AP Human Geography example #86238

The study of the organization and distribution of political phemomena.

An independent political unit occupying a defined, permanently populated territory and having full soveriegn control over its internal and foreign affairs.

An urban ethnic area serving as point of entry and temporary acculturation zone for a specific immagrant group.

A boundary line established before the area in question is well populated.

A line seporating one political unit from another.

A boundary line that coincides with some cultural divide, such as religion or language.

the portion of a country that contains its economic, political, intellectual, and cultural focus.

A state whose territory is nearly circular.

A portion of a state that is separated from the main territory and surrounded by another country.

A small bit of foreign territory lying within a state but not under jurisdiction.

A state whose territory id long and narrow.

A state whose territory contains isolated parts, separated and discontinuous.

A belt lying between two states or between settled and inhabited or sparsely settled areas.

A dipute over how a boundary works

A boundary without obvious physical boundaries basis.

The policy of a state wishing to incorperate within itself territory inhabited by people who have ethnic or linnguistic links with the country but that lies within a neughboring state.

Describing a state which lacks a sea coast.

A culturally distinctive group of people occupying a specific territory and bound together by a sense of unity arising from shared ethnic beliefs and customs.

A state whose territory is identical to that occupied by a particular ethnic group or nation.

A boundary line based on recognizable phyisiographic features.

A state of basically compact form but with one or more narrow extensions of territory.

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The outer regions or boundaries of an area.

Disagreement about the actual location of a boundary.

A former boundary line that is still discernible and marked by some cultural landscape feature.

Disagreement over the control or use of shared resources.

A boundary line placed over and ignoring an existing cutlural pattern.

A boundary line that is established after the area in question has been settled and that considers the cultural characteristics of the bounded area.

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Disagreement between states over the control of surface area.