AP Human Geography Vocabulary for Chapter 8: Political Geography
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| Autocracy | A country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people.
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| Anocracy | A country that is not fully democratic or autocratic, but rather displays a mix of the two.
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| Balance of Power | Condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries.
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| City-state | A sovereign state comprising a city and it's immediate hinterland (a remote region).
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| Colonialism | Attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory.
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| Compact State | A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly.
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| Democracy | A country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office.
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| Elongated State | A state with a long, narrow shape.
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| Federal State | An international organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of a local government.
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| Frontier | A zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control.
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| Gerrymandering | Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.
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| Imperialism | Control of territory already occupied and organized by an indigenous society.
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| Landlocked State | A state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea.
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| Multiethnic State | A state that contains more than one ethnicity.
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| Multinational 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.
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| Microstate | A state that encompasses a very small land area.
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| Nation-state | A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality.
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| Perforated State | A state that completely surrounds another one.
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| Prorupted State | An otherwise compact state with large projecting extension.
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| Self-determination | The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.
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| Sovereignty | Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states.
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| State | An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government with control over its internal and foreign affairs.
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| Terrorism | The systematic use of violence by a group on order to intimidate a population or coerce a government into granting its demands.
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| Unitary State | An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials.
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| Boundary | Invisible line that marks the extent of a state's territory.
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| Colony | A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent.
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