Across
- 3. An area organized into a political unit and rules by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs.
- 6. An otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension
- 8. A zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control
- 9. The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves
- 10. A country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people
- 12. Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states
- 13. A large group of people who are united by common cultural characteristics, such as language and ethnicity, or by shared history
- 15. A condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries
- 17. An attempt by a country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic and cultural principles in another territory
- 18. A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly
- 20. A state that encompasses a very small land area
- 21. A state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory
- 22. A country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office
Down
- 1. The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power
- 2. A state that contains two or more cultural groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities
- 4. A state with a long, narrow state
- 5. An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government
- 7. An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials
- 11. An invisible line that marks the extent of a state's territory
- 14. A state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea
- 16. A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular nation
- 19. A state that completely surrounds another one