Unit 5 Vocabulary

3. A state with a long, narrow extended territory.
4. The boundaries between countries and territories.
5. Any state whose territorial boundaries do not touch an ocean, gulf, or bay.
9. The number of state’s citizens
13. The state’s political organization and public policy
14. An ethnic group or nation that does not possess its own state and is not the majority population in any nation state.
15. A state that is simply divided or separated by a barrier.
17. 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.
20. A state that completely surrounds another.
21. The concept that ethnicity have the right to govern themselves.

1. A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity.
2. 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.
6. The right of self-government.
7. The full right and power of a governing body over itself, without any interference from outside sources.
8. A state that has an extension that protrudes from the main territory.
10. A political entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing provinces, states, or other regions under a central federal government.
11. The state’s known and recognized boundaries
12. An international group or union in which the power and influence of member states transcend national boundaries or interests to share in decision making and vote on issues concerning the collective body.
16. A state that contains more than one ethnicity.
18. A state governed as a single power in which the central government is ultimately supreme.
19. The state’s supreme and absolute power within its own territory and over its own people