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World Geography Vocab Unit 3: Political Geography
1. Political the branch of geography that deals with the boundaries, divisions,
Geography and possessions of countries.

2. Nation a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture,

or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory.
3. State a nation or territory considered as an organized political
community under one government.
4. Nation-state a sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively
homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent.
5. Sovereign- a politically organized territory that is administered by a sovereign
territory government and is recognized by a significant portion of the
international community.
6. Political the sum-total of influences in a State which lie behind the law.
Sovereignty
7. Ethnic occurs when ethnic groups claim sovereignty and try to act as if.
Sovereignty they were sovereign at the military, political, social, and
institutional levels.
8. Peace of which ended the Eighty Years' War between Spain and the Dutch
Westphalia 1648 and the German phase of the Thirty Years' War.
9. Landlocked when it is surrounded on all sides by one or more other countries
and therefore has no direct access to a coastline providing access
to the oceans.
10. Turmoil a state of great commotion, confusion, or disturbance
11. Refugee a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to
escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.
12. External Conflict by contrast, involves the struggle between a person (or a group)
and a force that is outside of their control
13. Internal conflict Opposite of external conflict.

14. Partition is a change of political borders cutting through at least one territory
considered a homeland by some community.
15. Colonialism control by one power over a dependent area or people.

16.Imperialism is the act of imposing one's will (personal or national) on another

culture or state to create an empire.
17. Genocide systematic killing of a racial or cultural group. Ghettos. a portion of
a city in which members of a minority group live; especially
 because of social, legal or economic pressure.
18. Civil War a violent conflict between a state and one or more organized non-
state actors in the state's territory.
19. Independence effort by people to create a new sovereign state in a place inside of
Movement another state.
20. United Nations An international organization formed in 1945 to increase political
and economic cooperation among member countries.
21. NAFTA An important trade agreement creating a huge zone of cooperation
on trade and economic issues in North America.
22. African Union an organization of African states that aims to encourage economic
development and political stability through increased cooperation
between its members.
23. European Union It's a union of some European countries that is based to promote
development within the member states through economic
cooperation.
24. BREXIT refers to the possibility of Britain withdrawing from the European
Union.
25. GDP the value of the total output of goods and services produced in a
country in a given time period (normally one year).
26. ASEAN An organization of countries in southeast Asia set up to promote
cultural, economic and political development in the region.
27. 1961 Antarctica signed in 1959 by 47 states, provides a legal framework for
Treaty managing Antarctica.
28. Non- an organization that is not part of the local or state or federal
Governmental government.
Organization

29. Reunification bring together to parts of a country under one government.

30.Supranational Organization of three or more states to promote shared objectives.

31. Annexation To incorporate (territory) into an existing political unit such as a

country, state, county, or city.
32. Balkanization Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its
ethnicities.
33. Centrifugal a force that divides people and countries.
Force
34. Centripetal Opposite of centrifugal force.
Force
35. Push Factor is something that encourages an individual to leave, or emigrate
from, a certain place.
36. Pull Factor is something that attracts individuals to migrate to a certain place.