Across
- 2. A process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities
- 7. A state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea
- 8. A state with a long, narrow shape
- 9. A state that completely surrounds another one
- 11. A state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory
- 13. Boundaries that follow the distribution of cultural characteristics
- 14. Boundaries that are simply straight lines drawn on a map
- 15. An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs
- 16. An organization that consists of a number of parties or groups united in an alliance or league
- 17. State 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
- 18. An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state
Down
- 1. An otherwise compacted state with a large projecting extension
- 3. A state that encompasses a very small land area
- 4. A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality
- 5. Boundaries that coincide with significant features of the natural landscape
- 6. A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediately surrounding countryside
- 10. The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power
- 12. Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affair by other states
- 16. A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not very significantly
- 18. A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent