Chapter 4
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| show | A form of spatial analysis that integrates computer hardware, mapping software, and such specialized tools as models and algorithms. A versatile technique that is constantly being expanded in its applications
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| show | A representation of a unit of terrain obtained from remote sensing imagery
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| show | An independent political entity consisting of a single city with (and sometimes without) an immediate hinterland.
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| show | The term applied to the social and economic changes in agriculture, commerce, and especially manufacturing and urbanization that resulted from technological innovations and greater specialization in late-eighteenth-century Europe.
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| show | A country whose population possesses a substantial degree of cultural homogeneity and unity. The ideal form to which most nations and states aspire—a political unit wherein the territorial state coincides with the area settled by a certain national group
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| show | Legally a term encompassing all the citizens of a state, it also has other connotations. Most definitions now tend to refer to a group of tightly knit people possessing bonds of language, ethnicity, religion, and other shared cultural attributes. Such hom
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| show | The major world language family that dominates the European geographic realm. This language family is also the most widely dispersed globally (Fig. G-8), and about half of humankind speaks one of its languages.
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| show | A term employed to designate forces that tend to divide a country—such as internal religious, linguistic, ethnic, or ideological differences.
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| show | The 19 countries (as of mid-2016) whose official currency is the euro
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| show | Rhône-Alpes (France), Baden-Württemberg (Germany), Catalonia (Spain), and Lombardy (Italy). Each is a high-technology-driven region marked by exceptional industrial vitality and economic success not only within Europe but on the global scene as well.
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| show | The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government.
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| show | A sovereign state that contains a minuscule land area and population. They do not have the attributes of “complete” states, but are on the map as tiny yet independent entities nonetheless.
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| show | A country’s largest city—ranking atop its urban hierarchy—most expressive of the national culture and usually (but not in every case) the capital city as well.
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| show | The internal locational attributes of an urban center, including its local spatial organization and physical setting.
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| show | The external locational attributes of an urban center; its relative location or regional position with reference to other non-local places.
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| show | General term used to identify a large multimetropolitan complex formed by the coalescence of two or more major urban areas.
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| show | An interior state wholly surrounded by land. Without coasts, a country is disadvantaged in terms of accessibility to international trade routes, and in the scramble for possession of areas of the continental shelf and control the exclusive economic zone
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| show | A large city with particularly significant international (economic) linkages that also has a high ranking in the global urban system. Leading world-cities include London, New York, Tokyo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Paris.
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| show | Urban agglomeration consisting of a (central) city and its suburban ring. See also urban (metropolitan) area.
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| show | A policy of cultural extension and potential political expansion by a state aimed at a community of its nationals living in a neighboring state.
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