Across
- 3. the effort by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles on such territory
- 7. a zone where no state exercises complete political control
- 10. allocates strong power to units of local government within the country
- 12. where the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly; the ideal would be shaped like a circle
- 13. the process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power
- 14. an invisible line marking the extent of a state’s territory
- 15. lacks a direct outlet to the sea because it is completely surrounded by several other countries
- 17. a state that completely surrounds another one
Down
- 1. a territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than being completely independent
- 2. places most power in the hands of central government officials
- 4. states with very small land areas
- 5. a sovereign state that comprises a town and the surrounding countryside
- 6. independence from control of its internal affairs by other states
- 8. an otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension
- 9. includes several discontinuous pieces of territory
- 11. states with a long and narrow shape
- 16. control of territory already occupied and organized by an indigineous society