Political Geography

4. A state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory.
6. An attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory.
8. A state with a long, narrow shape.
11. An invisible line that marks the extent of a state’s territory
13. A country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people.
14. A state that completely surrounds another one.
15. An internal organization of a state that allocates strong power to units of local government.
16. The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.
19. An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials.
22. A state that encompasses a very small land area.
23. The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.
25. A state that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities.

1. A condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries.
2. A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly.
3. A state that contains more than one ethnicity.
5. An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs.
7. A country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office.
9. A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediately surrounding countryside.
10. An otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension.
12. A zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control.
17. A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity.
18. A state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea.
20. Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states.
21. The systematic use of violence by a group calculated to create an atmosphere of fear and alarm among a population or to coerce a government into actions it would not otherwise undertake or refrain from actions it wants to take.
24. A country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic but rather displays a mix of the two types.