AP Human Geography

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Across
  1. 4. A nominally independent country that is politically, militarily, and economically controlled by a more powerful state.
  2. 5. A state with a long, narrow shape.
  3. 6. A subdivision or dependent territory of a country that has some degree of, but not complete, self-government.
  4. 8. A state that rules itself and is not subject to the authority of another state.
  5. 12. A community of people bound to a homeland and possessing a common identity based on shared cultural traits such as language, ethnicity, and religion.
  6. 14. (2) A country containing multiple national, ethnic, and religious groups within its boundaries.
  7. 15. A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent.
  8. 16. A state that completely surrounds another one.
  9. 17. A state that exhibits a narrow, elongated land extension leading away from the main territory.
  10. 19. A state that possess the sole authority over the land and people within its boundaries.
  11. 21. A state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory.
  12. 22. An area of land under the jurisdiction of a ruler or state.
Down
  1. 1. A territory that a nation is based on; the motherland or fatherland.
  2. 2. Zone that extends 200 nautical miles from shoreline in which coastal states have the sole right to exploit, develop, manage and conserve all water resources lying beyond the land.
  3. 3. (2) Ethnic groups territorially divided by one or more international boundaries.
  4. 7. A subdivision or dependent territory of a country that has a degree of self-government, or autonomy, in its decision making.
  5. 9. An area in which treaties or agreements between nations, military powers, or contending groups forbid military installations, activities, or personnel; usually lies along an established frontier or boundary between two or more military powers or alliances.
  6. 10. The ideal geographical unit; one in which nation’s geographic boundaries (a people and its culture) exactly match the state’s territorial boundaries (governance and authority).
  7. 11. A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly.
  8. 13. (2) An ethnic group or nation that does not possess its own state and is not majority population in any Nation-State
  9. 18. An independent political unit with a centralized authority that makes claim to sole legal, political, and economic jurisdiction over a region with defined boundaries.
  10. 20. A politically and economically weak independent state country that lies between the borders of two powers.