Political Geography

2. a system of government by one person with absolute power.
4. a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.
6. an area of a country that has a degree of autonomy, or has freedom from an external authority
9. a principal administrative division of certain countries or empires
12. a situation in which nations of the world have roughly equal power.
13. the authority of a state to govern itself
15. the process by which a country determines its own statehood and forms its own allegiances and government.

1. the most important reason or purpose for someone or something's existence.
3. a sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent.
5. a sovereign entity that comprises two or more nations or states. I.e, United Kingdom
7. people who have spread or been dispersed from their homeland.
8. practice of separation of a certain group of people from a larger body on the basis of ethnicity, religion, or gender.
10. having or relating to a system of government in which several states form a unity but remain independent in internal affairs.
11. a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government
14. manipulates the boundaries of (an electoral constituency) so as to favor one party or class.