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political geoography
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Compact | arranged within a relatively small space enclosed with good communications. |
| elongated | a long and narrow shape. States like this may suffer from poor internal communication. |
| prorupted | a state that has a long extension or an extended arm of territory. Easy access to coast and local resources around it. |
| perforated | a state that completely surrounds another. EX: South Africa since it surrounds Lesotho. More problems can arise if there is hostility between the two nations. |
| Fragmented | a state that is separated by a physical or human barrier. EX: Indonesia or Hawaii since it has many portions of the state is separated by oceans, lakes, or mountains. It is difficult to gov. such a country comprised of islands. |
| landlocked | a state or country entirely enclosed by land, or whose only coastlines lie on closed seas. |
| democracy | a gov by the people, lots of rights and political freedom. If one person in gov. has too much power, they have checks and balances to counter-act that power. |
| Communism | everyone is treated the same. The gov. owns everything and provides for its citizens. a system of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single and self perpetuating political. |
| Monarchy | a state of nation in which the supreme power is actually one person. |
| theocracy | a gov. where the ruler is thought of by the people as a god. |
| republics | a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them. |
| aristocracy | a gov. by those considered to be the best or most able people in the state. |
| oligarchy | a gov. where all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; gov. by the few. |
| political | pertaining to,or involving the states or its gov. |
| military | pertaining to the army or armed forces |
| economic | pertaining to the production, distribution, and use of income, wealth, and commodities. |
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